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Subject: Re: gnus' strange message-id again
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Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

> Yes, it's easy for someone who knows Gnus internals.  And you could
> document it -- that will help people find responses to their own
> articles.

I've now documented it.

> But Gnus doc does not help a non-Gnus-user who want to kill a
> Gnus-user's threads.  Or a Gnus user who thinks the doc is far too big
> to read all of it.  OTOH, the common rule that Message Id's look like
> <username.something@domain> can be discovered even by a naive user who
> doesn't know anything about the poster's news agent.

Well, not really.  Most Message-IDs are generated by the nntp server
and has nothing to identify the user (at *all*) in them.

Off the top of my head, then only two newsreaders that put the user
name into the Message-ID are GNUS 4.1 and slrn.  I'm probably wrong
here, though.

I think the need for brevity in the Message-ID is more important than
making it easier for people to score on it.

-- 
  "Yes.  The journey through the human heart 
     would have to wait until some other time."