From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27296 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robin S. Socha" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to set news message id? Date: 28 Nov 1999 17:13:05 +0100 Organization: Usenet Death Squad Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87iu2qn1oj.fsf@mycroft.localnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164345 23811 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:39:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA11140 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 11:40:31 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAC25682; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 10:40:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 28 Nov 1999 10:39:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06056 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 10:39:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from kens.com (kens.com [129.250.30.40]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA11135 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 11:39:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from socha.net (IDENT:root@next3.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.224.32]) by kens.com (8.9.3/8.9.3-mod-for-majordomo) with ESMTP id LAA06770 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 11:39:15 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from robin@localhost) by socha.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA22495; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 17:13:05 +0100 Original-To: Ding List X-URL: X-Face: #Z}0zkbqU,m`+S)^0R[.23L-o>U{UQ|(DvIqu^Bjw:po_g9;4JnT9tbn;QX$ga/LYS In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "28 Nov 1999 09:45:36 -0500" Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070099 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99) XEmacs/21.2 (Yoko) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27296 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27296 * Stainless Steel Rat writes: > havardk@sol.no (Håvard Kvålen) on Sat, 27 Nov 1999 >> You can do a (setq system-name "host.domain.net") in .emacs too. > > This is generally not a good idea. Doing this manually is a dead > giveaway that your system is not properly configured ("so shoot me"). If we all lived in a perfect world without things like German T*l*k*m, you were probably right. However, you cannot configure a dial-up system "properly" if your provider doesn't give you a static IP address. Therefore, radioactive.socha.net "does not exist". I /could/ use Jonas Luster MsgID patch for INN and tweak sendmail - but then again, why bother? -- Robin S. Socha