[news.software.b] Long message ids

peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (06/29/89)

At least make message IDs differ in the first few characters. News 2.11
uses lockfiles with names like "/tmp/L<message@id>". On our Xenix boxes
with massive intel brain damage we get zombie lock files... it'd be nice
if they didn't lead to lots & lots of messages getting dumped because the
ids are identical in the first 12 characters.
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