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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Message-IDs
Message-ID: <273@apollo.uucp>
Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 10:00:55 EST
Article-I.D.: apollo.273
Posted: Tue Mar 20 10:00:55 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 03:28:33 EST
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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I've been giving some thought about implementing news 2.10 in
a distributed environment, where you might be able to get at
the spool directory but not the lib directory, for example.
It would be convenient if I could generate Message-IDs without
having to read and modify the lib/seq file.  So my question
is, how many news systems will break if I go to a Message-ID
of the form <1e43fb82.1147@apollo.uucp> (for example)?  I've
forgotten whether news 2.9 made assumptions about the part
before the '@' being numeric, or whether it just treated it as
a string.  I know I've seen Message-IDs like this coming out of
ucbtopaz.  Will they break anything?