From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!ixn5c!ixlpa!mtv
Newsgroups: net.netnews
Title: ihlpb's article IDs
Article-I.D.: ixlpa.4023084
Posted: Wed Oct 20 23:38:04 1982
Received: Thu Oct 21 01:52:11 1982

Re: What's the story with ihlpb article ID's?

Our CC will often notice (how?) that a file has been
lost and restore it from a backup copy.  Normally this
is great but what happens if its the netnews sequence
number file? --- You use those numbers over again and
all the other systems reject them.  To solve this ihlpb,
ixlpa and ixlpc now use :


	lock();
	sequence_number = time(0) % 10000000;
	sleep(3);
	unlock();
	
To generate sequence numbers.  (These repeat after about 3 months,
but nobody should save news that long). 



	Michael T. Veach
	  ixlpa!mtv