Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!swap!page From: page%swap@Sun.COM (Bob Page) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: message IDs (was: bug (?) in gnus-inews-message-id) Message-ID: <113976@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 6 Jul 89 18:12:02 GMT References: Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: page@sun.UUCP (Bob Page) Distribution: gnu Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 19 shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) wrote: >Do you find it likely that you will post two separate messages >from machines using the same hostname in the same second?? I do. All the time. I moderate comp.sources/binaries.amiga, and have a program that does the posting. On multi-part postings, they all go out at the same time. Many sites generate message-id's at a "news gateway", something like: this is especially true for mailing lists that are gatewayed into newsgroups. In this case it's easy to get the same message-IDs on more than one article. >Users OFTEN see Message-ID's, particularly in attribution lines when Well, it's time to change it. My attribution lines have always left out the article ID. After all, it's in the References: line. ..bob