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From: tanner@cdis-1.compu.com (Dr. T. Andrews)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News milestone
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Date: 15 Nov 90 21:32:18 GMT
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In article <1990Nov13.215847.23684@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
) As I believe I've mentioned before, we regularly run statistics on
) usage of different news systems by analyzing our history file.  The
) major news systems generate message-IDs of distinctive forms, ...
Right, and as you note there are people out there whose news systems
don't generate the ``expected'' message-ID form.  I cite particularly
ours, which generates 7-digit (base 36 digits) message IDs.

We did not find the default C news message-IDs, which read like
Russian novels, suitable.  The program "seq.c" which generates
these message-IDs is available as a ``shar'' file upon e-mailed
application to me at the address shown above.  Act now, and receive
at no extra charge the patch to the "anne.jones" script to use
this program.