Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!ogicse!milton!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!wisner From: wisner@ims.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Ideas for Message-ID's Message-ID: <1991Apr19.000138.16005@ims.alaska.edu> Date: 19 Apr 91 00:01:38 GMT Article-I.D.: ims.1991Apr19.000138.16005 References: <1991Apr16.174706.4963@nic.funet.fi> <1991Apr17.212354.12236@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: Amnesia International Lines: 19 In article wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) writes: >granted, using the login name has the same problem as a process id, in >that the same user can generate more than one article per second, but >it isnt any worse than the process id either. Wrong. The message ID is generated by inews or anne.jones, which gets invoked each time an article is posted. Thus, the process ID is different for every article. The username is constant. If the username replaces the PID, two articles posted by the same user in one second will have the same message ID. Using the PID, the IDs will be different since the PID will have changed. I think it's safe to say that it's very unlikely for any system to cycle through all 30,000 process IDs in one second. Bill Wisner Gryphon Gang Fairbanks AK 99775 bnug, dude yeah .