From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35140 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 22:39:35 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87snkxqico.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 1035170931 1382 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:28:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:28:51 +0000 (UTC) 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 83305D049E for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:57:42 -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 PAB08459; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:57:23 -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 15:56:38 -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 PAA04774 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:56:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.netic.de (mail.s.netic.de [212.9.160.11]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA1AD049E for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:56:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by mail.netic.de (Smail3.2.0.111/mail.s.netic.de) via LF.net GmbH Internet Services via remoteip 212.9.163.103 via remotehost mail.enyo.de with esmtp for mail.gnus.org id m14Yb4A-001WzHC; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:56:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14YacG-0006A1-00 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2001 22:28:04 +0100 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14YanP-0000Uu-00 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2001 22:39:35 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "28 Feb 2001 11:38:19 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 10 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35140 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35140 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > Florian Weimer writes: > > For mail, there never was a uniqueness constraint on message IDs. > > I'm not sure what you mean, but RFC822 4.6.1 says "The uniqueness of > the message identifier is guaranteed by the host which generates it." Hardly anybody relies on the uniqueness of message IDs. Messages without IDs are even transported by most MTAs.