Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!mica.berkeley.edu!wisner From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: Re: bug (?) in gnus-inews-message-id Message-ID: Date: 6 Jul 89 05:13:29 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: gnu Organization: Verrifast Plaine Co Ltd Lines: 32 In-reply-to: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu's message of 6 Jul 89 02:03:43 GMT shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: >Why?? Do you find it likely that you will post two separate messages >from machines using the same hostname in the same second?? Get real. Likely is too likely. Message-IDs must be *guaranteed* to be unique. Period. >It uses the same domain as it uses for the "From:" line. Only if you use gnus-your-domain. And if gnus-your-domain is set at all, it should be set to your true hostname. If you put a dummy name in your From line, use gnus-use-generic-from. > It should NOT use the host and domain for the >Message-ID if it uses only the domain for the From: line. That is >inconsistent behavior. And wrong. (IMO) The From: line should contain a valid address at which you can receive mail. The Message-ID line, in order to insure uniqueness, should contain either the true hostname of your local machine, or the hostname of the NNTP server that is posting your message. >Users OFTEN see Message-ID's, particularly in attribution lines when >someone is quoted. And yes, poorly generated ID's (and long ones) get >to be quite annoying. I repeat: who bloody cares? Who sends mail to hostnames given in message IDs? Their only purpose is to give each and every message a *unique* identifier. Bill Wisner wisner@mica.berkeley.edu ucbvax!mica!wisner I'm not the NRA either.