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From: hks@nic.funet.fi (Harri Salminen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Ideas for Message-ID's
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.191034.14885@nic.funet.fi>
Date: 25 Apr 91 19:10:34 GMT
References: <3427@litchi.bbn.com> <3434@litchi.bbn.com> <1991Apr16.174706.4963@nic.funet.fi> <1991Apr17.212354.12236@zoo.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: hks@funet.fi
Organization: Finnish University & Research Network
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I forgot to note that if you just ADD a string
to the already unique messageid just before @ you'll get even more
unique ID. The string could be crc of newsgroup name & subject or some other
hash result of the newsgroup name. That way you don't have to change
anything else but the gateway although it isn't as clean as checking
newsgroup name in history check.

Harri
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