Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 Apollo; site apollo.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!wivax!apollo!rees 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. Lines: 11 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?