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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NNTPD hates Message-IDs with TWO '@'s in them.  (BIG log file attached to this posting)
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.161227.13203@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 16:12:27 GMT
References: <1991Jun16.063341.13609@kithrup.COM> <6021@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jun17.193252.28272@zoo.toronto.edu> <5127@lib.tmc.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <5127@lib.tmc.edu> sob@lib.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:
>>Actually, the consistency between Rick Adams's "version" control-message
>>census and our statistics based on message-ID format strongly suggests
>>that very few people have in fact hacked the ID format.
>
>Okey. Let's look at the following article. 

You can't learn anything by just looking at message IDs; you also have to
know what software posted the stuff.  There is *a lot* of gatewaying between
Usenet and other networks.  The single largest category of message IDs in
my analysis results is "other", and comparing this to Rick's statistics
indicates that most of the "other" sites don't answer control messages,
i.e. they are on the other side of gateways and *probably* are running
neither B nor C News.
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