Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!wisner
From: wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Forgeries: a suggestion for bringing them under control
Message-ID: <8569@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 24 Mar 88 00:37:16 GMT
References: <1861@epimass.EPI.COM> <14276@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> <586@nusdhub.UUCP> <989@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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der Mouse say:
>8710070328.AA21589
>	The first part appears to be a date, the second looks like a
>	sendmail queue-ID.  (From Berkeley, ajpo.sei.cmu.edu, etc.)

Standard sendmail-generated message ID. The ucbvax Internet-to-USENET
gateway uses them.

>1289
>	This looks like a sequence number.  (From a great many places.)

Yup. Vanilla B newsism.

>1988Jan23.202318.22868
>	The first part is pretty obviously a date; the second part
>	looks like a time, and the third part is mysterious.  The
>	process ID of the posting process maybe?

Probably. Using PID like that isn't really a safe way to generate unique
message IDs; I've known some systems to be active enough that they cycle
through the entire thirty-thousand process limit in a day.

>167100020
>	I dunno.  (Message-IDs appearing to conform to this pattern - a
>	large integer - appear with uiucdcsb, clio, hpcupt1.HP.COM,
>	silver, occrsh.ATT.COM, uokmet.UUCP, etc on the right of the @.)

Isn't it awful? That's a notesfiles message ID. Usually, there is no
domain after the sitename, either.

..b