Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!vsi1!lmb From: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Usenet Top-Level Domain Census Message-ID: <1660@vicom.COM> Date: 28 Apr 89 16:52:09 GMT References: <164@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> Reply-To: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair) Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Lines: 19 In article <164@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) writes: =We were sitting around jawing about conversion to the Domain Name =System and how many sites are still using ".UUCP" or other name schemes, =and how many sites don't put out legal Message-IDs at all. Wait a sec. If you're talking about the Message-ID in news postings, I have to disagree with your concept of illegal. A legal Message-ID is one that uniquely identifies a particular news posting, does not conflict with any other site's Message-IDs, and doesn't cause the news software to barf. It is only used for article identification and has nothing to do addresses or domains. You'll notice that my From: says lmb@vicom.COM and the Message-ID is . This only because I went in and hacked news source to produce this. Unmodified, it generated , using our uucp node name and appending our domain. That was a perfectly legal ID (I changed it for esthetic reasons). If a site wants to generate IDs like that's perfectly ok, provided they don't reuse that string. The software doesn't care. -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb@vicom.com