Re: Thoughts on Message-ID generation

["David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@home.com>]

Stainless Steel Rat wrote:

> * "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@home.com>  on Fri, 02 Mar 2001
> | Hey, it's the in thing.
>
> So is Java and it can be used for everything, right?
> Just because it is in and hip and cool and stuff does not make it the best
> way to do everything.

No, ELisp is the way to do everything, and do it all in one place ! ;-}

>
>
> | Simplify: my "mailto: URI" had better be unique, or my mail won't reach
> | me and I won't give a rat's <U-no> whether it's identified, uniquely or
> | otherwise.
> |  So: "G20010302T165500.0000Z!Superbiskit@Home.com"
>
> No more or less valid than what my firewall at work does:
> <01Mar2.104434est.115296@gateway.intersys.com>
> But it is harder to calculate, especially given that Emacs really has no
> good way of looking for MAC addresses.

Just like your firewall, read that as "Gregorian" 2001 03 01, etc.  Gnus could do
that quite easily!  But for those of us with an ISP as gateway I'm not sure any
ID we give a message will "take."  I think At-Home will stick its own on it
anyway.  I'll need to do some testing !

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