Putnam [‘On the non-periodicity of the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function’,
Amer. J. Math.76 (1954), 97–99] proved that
the sequence of consecutive positive zeros of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}(\frac{1}{2}+it)$ does not contain any infinite arithmetic progression. We
extend this result to a certain class of zeta functions.