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From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Messages-id's at sri-arpa
Message-ID: <843@dual.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 22:23:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 22:23:09 1984
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Actually, the solution is quite simple:

Since all of sri-unix's ``netnews'' articles originate as mail,
sri-unix can use the message-id on the mail itself (a required field by
RFC822) instead of generating one itself. Message-id's from the
internet are also required to be unique network wide.  If the letter
doesn't have a message-id field, sri-unix can generate one in the usual
way, and have the program mail a nasty note to the postmaster of the
offending internet host.

Andrew Knutsen, are you listening?

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA

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