Path: utzoo!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Message ID niceties Message-ID: <7081@ficc.uu.net> Date: 21 Nov 89 23:16:17 GMT Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 News 2.11 PL 14 uses files of the form /tmp/Lmessage-id for lock files. I don't know if thi has been changed in higher patch levels: when I tried to upgrade to PL 17 everything broke, and the list of fixes didn't look important enough to make it worth while figuring it out. When C news gets out of patch-of-the-month mode I'll probably switch to it anyway. But back to the point. Please put the most frequently changing parts of the message-id near the beginning of the id to avoid conflicts... an id like is nearly pessimal. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "I agree 0bNNNNN would have been nice, however, and I sure wish X3J11 had taken time off from rabbinical hairsplitting to add it." -- Tom Neff