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On 27 Feb 2001, Jason R. Mastaler wrote:
> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> 
>> Yes.  It would increase the risk of duplicate message ids, i.e. all
>> the users of all the machines in our department share the
>> 'dina.kvl.dk' mail host name, but I'm the only one using ssv2.
> 
> By this argument, using (system-name) for the message-id doesn't
> insure uniqueness.  In your case you are the only one using ssv2,
> but consider large multiuser servers where hundreds of gnus users
> may be using the same machine.

The lhs should be unique on that host, and the rhs should uniquely
identify the host.  Gnus should make sure that the lhs is unique even
if several people use the same machine.

kai
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