From: Matt Armstrong <matta@geoworks.com>
Subject: Unique? Message-Id generation by Gnus
Date: 12 Mar 1998 14:45:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uiupj1qay.fsf@geoworks.com> (raw)
Why does Gnus add a Message-Id header instead of letting the news/mail
server do it?
With people setting user-mail-address to the base domain name of their
company/ISP/mail-forwarder, it is possible to get a lot of
<blahblah.fsf@domain.com> message ids even though the logic that
generates the "blahblah" part doesn't necessarily guarantee
uniqueness.
E.g. <blahblah.fsf@bigfoot.com>
It just seems like the news/mail servers are more centralized, and so
could guarantee uniqueness more effectively.
I realize this may be a theoretical and not a practical problem -- I'm
just imagining the day _everybody_ uses Gnus. ;-)
--
matta
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1998-03-12 22:45 Matt Armstrong [this message]
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1998-03-13 19:14 ` Matt Armstrong
1998-03-13 21:47 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
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