From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 02 1998 - 16:08:14 CDT
In <l03110700b1c0bebc025e@[206.222.208.4]> Greg Berigan <gberigan@cse.unl.edu> writes:
>C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net> wrote
>to Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>, cc'd to usenet-format@clari.net :
>> o Elaborate schemes requiring client/server interaction for
>> Message-ID generation are unworkable. If I compose a message on my
>> laptop whilst flying in an airplane, it's highly unlikely that I'm
>> going to have connectivity to my Message-ID server.
>Then you're going to postpone sending the article until you do have
>connectivity. The tin newsreader has postponement built-in now.
Quite so. You shouldn't be generating message-ids on a laptop unless you
have an overpowering reason to know your own message-ids on a timescale
shorter than the time it takes your article to reappear in your own spool.
Use the NNTP POST command when you get home, and let the NNTP server add
the message-id.
OK, if you are posting and mailing you might need to do it locally, but
not otherwise.
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