From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14544 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Unique? Message-Id generation by Gnus Date: 12 Mar 1998 14:45:41 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153716 16735 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:41:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18339 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:16:28 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA28796 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:11:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAN06479; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:46:00 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:09:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from tibbs@localhost) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA28783 for ding@hpc.uh.edu; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:09:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA28296 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:21:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 31835 invoked by uid 504); 13 Mar 1998 00:21:03 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 31832 invoked from network); 13 Mar 1998 00:21:02 -0000 Original-Received: from CAraptorUU.geoworks.com (208.232.87.36) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 1998 00:21:02 -0000 Original-Received: from maelstrom.geoworks.com by CAraptorUU.geoworks.com via smtpd (for claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) with SMTP; 13 Mar 1998 00:20:32 UT Original-Received: from fusion.geoworks.com (fusion.geoworks.com [198.211.200.200]) by maelstrom.geoworks.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA15921 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:20:27 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from quark.geoworks.com (quark.geoworks.com [198.211.201.100]) by fusion.geoworks.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA19578 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:20:26 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ULTRAMAN ([198.211.201.179]) by quark.geoworks.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA01860 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:20:24 -0800 (PST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-From-Line: matta@geoworks.com Sun Mar 12 14:45:41 1998 Original-Received: from ULTRAMAN ([198.211.201.179]) by quark.geoworks.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA22752; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:45:21 -0800 (PST) X-UIDL: 889746932.002 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.29/Emacs 19.34 Original-Xref: ULTRAMAN main:5602 Original-Lines: 21 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14544 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14544 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 message ids even though the logic that generates the "blahblah" part doesn't necessarily guarantee uniqueness. E.g. 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