Holger Metzger wrote:
>
> On 6/9/01 11:37 PM, Chuck Simmons wrote:
>
> > Take your pick on that one.
>
> I rather don't, thank you. :)
>
> German usenet is rather picky (which is actually a good thing - the
> most legible usenet hierarchy I know), and the standard way Netscape is
> generating message-ids for postings is forbidden in any de.* newsgroup I
> know. So since de.* is my home in usenet I will have to go with the
> quotation marks trick for the time being.
>
> Holger
Out of curiosity, what is correct on the de.* in the case of a server
with, say, 20 aliases? This is a pretty common situation in the US. In
fact, the server I use has at least 2 aliases and I do not use the one
which the server would use for creating message ID's. Which alias should
a server use given that it probably does not use reverse DNS to discover
the domain of origin of the message in order to guess the likely alias
used. BTW, news.mozilla.org is an alias. The server has at least 4 names
in at least three distinct domains (the high level parts of the domains
are .com, .net and .org).
Chuck
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