Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Ideas for Message-ID's Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 19:44:04 GMT References: <3427@litchi.bbn.com> <3434@litchi.bbn.com> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY Lines: 12 Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu As I am discovering now, articles are silently failing to be delivered to some (lots?) of sites because of some unspecified quality of my message-ids. I even trimmed the set by several characters, though they were always all valid RFC-822 id characters. This is a problem for me because of news.announce.newgroups, but I want to know just what it is that is causing the problem before I hack into it and change it to just use base 37 ([a-z0-9.]). As Henry has already pointed out, your base 64 is going to have a problem because of older B News sites, of which there are an appreciable amount to be annoying --- they do case-insensitive id handling. -- (setq mail '("tale@rpi.edu" "uupsi!rpi!tale" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))