chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (11/21/89)
According to henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer): >It's not a question of wanting the date in the message-id; it's a question >of wanting a decentralized message-id-generation algorithm that doesn't >need exclusive (i.e. with a locking protocol) access to a central file. If you want a shorter version of the date, just apply the patch below. It generates IDs like <aaaaaaaa.bbbbb@host>, where "a" is the time in hex and "b" is the pid. I'd prefer a message ID of <aaaaaabbb@host>, where "a" is the time in base 62 and "b" is the pid in base 62. Unfortunately, that will require a new C program, since dc's output format for bases higher than 16 loses compactness. (Try it.) Here's the patch. Shar and enjoy. *** anne.jones.P Tue Jun 13 12:37:47 1989 --- anne.jones Tue Nov 21 10:38:43 1989 *************** *** 101,104 **** --- 101,106 ---- esac `" # for defdate, defmsgid + # date in hex to make it shorter + gdat=`(echo 16o; getdate now; echo p) | dc` case "$ORGANIZATION" in "") deforg="`sed 1q $NEWSCTL/organi[sz]ation`" ;; # look in a file *************** *** 118,120 **** deffrom="$FROM" deforg="$deforg" \ defdate="` set $date; echo $1, $3 $2 \` echo $6 | sed 's/^..//' \` $4 $5`" \ ! defmsgid="`set $date; echo \<$6$2$3.\` echo $4 | tr -d : \`.$$@$host\>`" - --- 120,122 ---- deffrom="$FROM" deforg="$deforg" \ defdate="` set $date; echo $1, $3 $2 \` echo $6 | sed 's/^..//' \` $4 $5`" \ ! defmsgid="`echo \<$gdat.$$@$host\>`" - -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg at A T Engineering; <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip> "Did I ever tell you the Jim Gladding story about the binoculars?"