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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Ideas for Message-ID's
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.002212.9970@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 91 00:22:12 GMT
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Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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(Brad Templeton) writes:

>Is there any reason for the message-id to be readable? 

I guess I'm the outcast. I *like* the cnews message-id's.

Machines that hoard old news, then suddenly dump them back on the net
with new dates seem, alas, to be a regular "feature" in recent years.
The message-id's are a good sanity check on the

	"Is this pointless argument STILL going on?"
feeling when this happens.
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