Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!bionet!ames!dftsrv!ukma!s.ms.uky.edu!kherron From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Ideas for Message-ID's Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 91 02:05:24 GMT References: <3427@litchi.bbn.com> <1991Mar22.050749.22115@looking.on.ca> <50a41197.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> Distribution: na Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Lines: 19 rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes: >In article , fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: >Wait, I've got an idea. How about numbering each article, starting with '1' >and going up. You could keep a counter, say in a file in /usr/lib/news, and >increment it each time. I thought of this once, but the locking could get painful and this has uses beyond news anyway. How about a "unique number server" that does nothing but provide numbers on demand. Give it a period of a million or a billion and it'll take months or years to repeat... Obviously there are problems with this; consider it a Partially Baked Idea. -- Kenneth Herron kherron@ms.uky.edu University of Kentucky (606) 257-2975 Department of Mathematics "Never trust gimmicky gadgets" -- the Doctor