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From: newsadm@iddth.id.dk (Nick Sandru (news adm))
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News milestone
Message-ID: <1990Nov23.121655.14455@iddth.id.dk>
Date: 23 Nov 90 12:16:55 GMT
References: <1990Nov13.215847.23684@zoo.toronto.edu> <00002RD@cdis-1.compu.com>
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Science
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tanner@cdis-1.compu.com (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:

>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 have at our site a c-news system, an nntp server and nn news readers on 
the client machines. nn generates it's own message-IDs to be used with by
nntp's inews, so c-news doesn't generate its own ones. Only the control
messages get c-news-style message-IDs.

Long Haired Nick.