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 dual!fair@Berkeley.ARPA {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,decwrl,amd70,fortune,zehntel}!dual!fair Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California