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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.groups
Subject: C-news message IDs (Re: Proposed groups for Unix users)
Message-ID: <5EY3VE6@ggpc2.ferranti.com>
Date: 6 Jun 90 03:26:25 GMT
References: <U=S3E7E@xds13.ferranti.com> <6442@scolex.sco.COM> <VQU34O3@xds13.ferranti.com> <266A8933.4EDE@tct.uucp> <1857@dino.cs.iastate.edu>
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In article <1857@dino.cs.iastate.edu> mehl@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu writes:
> Someone's news poster at @ferranti.com is working strangely.

Actually, it's //xds13/usr/lib/newsbin/inject/anne.jones:

defmsgid="<`$NEWSBIN/local/mkid`@`cat /etc/systemid`.$domain>" -

Mkid is a C program, that basically encodes the process ID and date in
something like base-45:

> References: <U=S3E7E@xds13.ferranti.com> <VQU34O3@xds13.ferranti.com>

Much nicer than the typical C-news ID, which typically run to something
like <twelfth.may.MLCCCXIII.fred.smith.cs-153@gnome.zurich.math.campus.edu>.

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