[net.news.b] Message-IDs

rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) (03/20/84)

I've been giving some thought about implementing news 2.10 in
a distributed environment, where you might be able to get at
the spool directory but not the lib directory, for example.
It would be convenient if I could generate Message-IDs without
having to read and modify the lib/seq file.  So my question
is, how many news systems will break if I go to a Message-ID
of the form <1e43fb82.1147@apollo.uucp> (for example)?  I've
forgotten whether news 2.9 made assumptions about the part
before the '@' being numeric, or whether it just treated it as
a string.  I know I've seen Message-IDs like this coming out of
ucbtopaz.  Will they break anything?

fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (03/23/84)

I asked Mark Horton about this some time ago. The word is go doit.
You might cause site with < 2.10 some problems, but they deserve
what they get for not updating like the rest of us.

	Erik E. Fair

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