And it came to pass that Holger Metzger wrote:
>On 6/9/01 2:55 PM, Chuck Simmons wrote:
>
>> I have thought about this and there is no perfect solution.
>> Server generated ID's are not guaranteed to be unique even
>> for one day. It depends on how the ID is generated and what
>> sort of upheavals the server goes through. The only
>> guarantee you have is that a server will not duplicate an
>> ID that is currently unexpired on that server.Since many
>> clients generate ID's, uniqueness cannot be guaranteed
>> anyway. I note that you deleted the message ID before
>> sending the above message to test what I said. Your earlier
>> message had the usual Netscape type of ID with <time in
>> hex>.<32 bit pseudo random number>@<domain>. This gives a
>> high probability of uniqueness.
>
>de.all.* usenet rules prohibit Netscape type message-ids. It
>either has to be a FQDN after the @ or a server generated id.
>
>It's interesting that
>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80819 has been
>reported by a de.all.* user :)
>
>IMHO message-id creation should be left to the news server to
>avoid dupes.
I strongly disagree.
I prefer to assign my own message ID. Makes it easier for me to
track my posts. If I can have a unique mail address, I can
certainly come up with a unique message ID. And have in fact
done so.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
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