Re: #1083: USEPRO 5.3: Rules for generating message-ID

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> But if an injecting agent creates Message-IDs it can't afford
> to create collisions.  It has to work if it generates more than
> one Message-ID per second, and it has to work if its local time
> sometimes jumps backwards into the "past".  It has to work at
> the end of daylight savings time, and after a reboot.

I think that RFC 2822 and USEFOR already adequately address this.

I certainly don't object to someone resurrecting the message ID generation
draft that was previously discussed in this working group as an
information RFC on how one can go about generating message IDs with the
desired properties, but RFC 2822 is reasonably clear about the required
properties and USEFOR already reiterates that a message identifier must be
unique forever.

> Your concept "Message-ID + Injection-Date = id" is IMO wrong. 
> The id of an article is the Message-ID, as the name suggests.

You apparently completely misunderstood my message if that's what you got
out of it.

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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>