Path: utzoo!utgpu!NDSUVM1!NETNWS-L Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 12:17:56 EST Reply-To: NETNWS-L Netnews List Sender: NETNWS-L Netnews List From: Linda Littleton Subject: Re: Listserv/Netnews gatewaying To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Feb21.022119est.57509@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: list.netnws-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu In article , Thomas Habernoll says: >On Wed, 14 Feb 90 16:19:00 EST Linda Littleton said: >>We've been creating a message-id if it is missing. The message-id is >>created by using data on the 'from' and 'date' lines of the file. >This is dangerous. Don't do it. This is dangerous. If the gateway is >subscribed to a Listserv list in the right way (i.e. with Fullheader >option), the header is guaranteed to have a message-id. If there is >no message-id then something is dead wrong, and the article should better >be deleted, or forwarded to the maintainer, or anything else except >feeding it into Netnews. Ok, we're no longer manufacturing message-ids. Only a few articles are coming in without them - from advise-l, online-l, and everything from Comserve.