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From: SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: How about making Message-ID:'s more unique?
Message-ID: <10147@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 89 19:39:52 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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Hi All,

Some time ago we had some problems with the disk drive this is used to store
the news database.  To make a long story short, we had to restore the disk
from save tapes that were several days old.  As a result the Message-ID:
headers for some of the articles we sent out could have been duplicates. I
would like to suggest that the Message-ID: be a little more complicated than
just <number@site>, perhaps something like <number.pid@site>, where pid is the
Process ID of the process creating the article.  This would tend to make it
VERY unlikely that a job with a duplicate ID would be generated, even if the
NEWS.GROUPS file was restored from a previous time.
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