Rolf Krahl wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Chuck Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > 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.
>
> INN generated message ids are guaranteed to be unique until the end of
> the universe, as long as the domain part is used by only one host at a
> given time. As news servers usually have far better message id
> generation methods then news clients, there is a perfekt solution for
> this problem: Simply not letting any client to create message ids at
> all.
>
> --
> Rolf Krahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
No! What you say is not possible. It takes only a few seconds thought to
destroy your argument. I was told once that the error correction on a
particular model of disk drive guaranteed I would never see bad data
from it. One fine morning, the OS informed me that on a particular file,
the forced error bit was set. This meant that either the data was bad or
the ECC was bad but neither the drive nor the OS could sort out which.
The guarantee you mention is like a Midas Muffler guarantee. It is good
as long as I can remember where I filed the paper work.
Chuck
--
... The times have been,
That, when the brains were out,
the man would die. ... Macbeth
Chuck Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
