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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Ideas for Message-ID's
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Date: 1 Apr 91 19:24:55 GMT
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rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes:

   You could keep a counter, say in a file in
   /usr/lib/news, and increment it each time.

Henry brought up locking, but there's also the issue of file system
access/writeability (NFS-mounted news spool/NNTP).
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