Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Long message ids (Re: Cnews and long message-ids)
Message-ID: <4821@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 29 Jun 89 13:36:50 GMT
References: <614318400.11519@telly.on.ca> <249FB1D6.12100@ateng.com>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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At least make message IDs differ in the first few characters. News 2.11
uses lockfiles with names like "/tmp/L<message@id>". On our Xenix boxes
with massive intel brain damage we get zombie lock files... it'd be nice
if they didn't lead to lots & lots of messages getting dumped because the
ids are identical in the first 12 characters.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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