Re: Do not let spam-trap go hungry! Your (normal) posts may help! :-)

[Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi@onet.eu>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 30 2008, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
>
>> (defun message-make-message-id()
>>   (concat "<"(message-unique-id)"@xxx.fsf.hobby-site.com>"))
>
> No, please don't override `message-make-message-id'.  Use
> `message-user-fqdn', see (info "(message)News Headers").

OK.
[I use even more "elaborate" message-id generator ]

>> xxx may be replaced by what you want e.g.
>> "@guru.fsf.hobby-site.com>" or
>> "@gnus.fsf.hobby-site.com>" or
>> "@Roberto.fsf.hobby-site.com>"
>
> If you allow different users to use the same full qualified domain
> name it is no longer guaranteed the resulting Message-ID is unique.

Have you noticed "guru", "gnus" and "Roberto" in the above example?
The domains should be different => you assumption should be wrong.

> I.e. users that follow your suggestion risk that their articles get
> rejected because of a duplicate Message-ID.  So I strongly recommend
> not to follow your suggestion.  (Hopefully fsf.hobby-site.com is your
> own domain, at least.)

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