Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!wesommer From: wesommer@athena.mit.edu (Bill Sommerfeld) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: News Versions, another approach Message-ID: Date: 17 Nov 89 03:32:14 GMT References: <1989Nov15.213552.9499@mks.com> <1989Nov16.234445.16469@rpi.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: None. Lines: 30 In-reply-to: tale@pawl.rpi.edu's message of 16 Nov 89 23:44:45 GMT In article <1989Nov16.234445.16469@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: Is CMU running B or C News? Neither. The site "andrew.cmu.edu" is using software they wrote locally known as the "Andrew Message System" (AMS), which is notable for some fairly spiffy user interfaces and multi-media capabilities. They hook up to the CMU-CS news server via NNTP, and accept and post articles that way; the software in question is something of a hack, and incorporates a special case for alt.gourmand. They've got some hairy M-IDs. AMS message ID's look like this: AZMrfK8GFU3JROj054 that is, exactly 18 characters long, always, with no "sub-structure". There is a program provided with AMS called decode_id which, when fed an AMS message ID, prints: ``0ZMrg2IGFU3J1Ok058'': generated 16 Nov 1989 at 22:29:06 EST from [18.70.0.213], pid 23232, ctr (mod 256) of 1. - Bill -- Henry Spencer is so much of a | Bill Sommerfeld at MIT/Project Athena minimalist that I often forget | sommerfeld@mit.edu he's there - anonymous |