Tuesday, December 28, 1999, 6:14:39 PM, Sashka wrote:
> IMHO, Bat doesn't generate them,
TB! does generate them. From my last message on this topic:
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> mail server adds them to headers.
This *can* happen if a message doesn't have a MSGID.
> And this only way it will be only one e-mail or article with same number.
This is false. MSGIDs are generally a mixture of random, incremental and
static data. If we take the first 4 digits in [EMAIL PROTECTED] as
random here is how it breaks down.
2735 - Random number. I don't think it is purely random, but there it is.
991228 - Today's date.
rpglink.com - The host "sending" the message.
For a duplicate MSGID to be generated it would have to be from this host,
on this day, with the same first 4 digits. That, alone, is a virtual
impossibility.
Now, the mail servers do basically the same thing. They will use a mix of
constant and dynamic data to guarentee that the chance of a duplicate is
virtually impossible to come up with. Having the server attach a MSGID to a
message does not make it any more or less likely of a duplicate. In fact, all
it does is prevent you from doing a search on the MSGID of your own messages
since they are not a part of your sent-mail.
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