From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35132 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Thoughts on Message-ID generation Date: 01 Mar 2001 15:51:13 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87k8694k66.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <87n1b6rcq9.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170921 1325 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:28:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDEA1D049E for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:41:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAB01690; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 08:40:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:40:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA01931 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 08:40:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.netic.de (mail.s.netic.de [212.9.160.11]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C38D049E for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:40:32 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by mail.netic.de (Smail3.2.0.111/mail.s.netic.de) via LF.net GmbH Internet Services via remoteip 212.9.163.38 via remotehost mail.enyo.de with esmtp for mail.gnus.org id m14YUFr-001WyUC; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:40:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14YUF1-0001C0-00; Thu, 01 Mar 2001 15:39:39 +0100 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14YUQD-0002bb-00; Thu, 01 Mar 2001 15:51:13 +0100 Original-To: Chris Shenton In-Reply-To: (Chris Shenton's message of "01 Mar 2001 09:24:37 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 17 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35132 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35132 Chris Shenton writes: > I'd really like the messageId to NOT contain my host, domain, or other > identifying information. The layout of my LAN systems should be > private, and I don't want spammers harvesting this info. Spammers aren't interested in your network structure. In addition, other headers leak much, much more information. > Any reason it can't be related to a crypto-generated blob based on > maybe UNIX time + hash of machine name + PID + ... ? Paranoia? This isn't much entropy... > Yours in paranoia... ;-)