Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: USENET restore from backup GOTCHA!
Message-ID: <1988Mar2.183951.14076@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: C News solves this too
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <22283f88:3052@snark.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 88 18:39:51 GMT

> This problem disappears in 3.0, which generates its Internet IDs as
> 	<ttttt:ppp@xxxxx>
> where ttttt is a hex encoding of a timestamp, ppp is the posting process ID,
> and xxxxx is the usual domain name. No seq file need apply.

C News does the same thing, although in a slightly different format.  We
did it this way because the seq file was just too much of a headache, but
in retrospect we consider it the right thing to do anyway.
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Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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