In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chuck Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tillmann Steinbrecher wrote:
> >
> > Chuck Simmons wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Why isn't the first part of the email address (before the @) also
> > somehow included in the MSGID? This way you could be sure the MSGID is
> > unique, since the email address is.
>
> For privacy reasons.
Bull.
The FROM of the message in question will have the email address,
including it in the Message-ID itself simply aids in finding followups
to the message, not in finding the message itself in the first place.
Posting with
From: JD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
doesn't gain you any additional privacy over
From: JD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <tih.12345678$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It simply makes it harder to track followups. Object on the grounds
that it might unduly lengthen the message-id, fine, object on the
grounds that trolls have a right to succeed and if people killfile
followups to their post they can't, again fine, but don't object on the
grounds of "privacy" as that's totally bogus.
--
J.B. Moreno
