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On 7 Jul 2000 21:58:08 GMT, qhpxvr@abqr0911.n2000.ay.invalid (Arjan
Drieman) wrote:

>So Forte Inc. may cancel your posts.
>Will they use that right?  Probably not.  The question is, however, do
>you want to *give* them that right.  Is it right for them to say,
>"okay, you may use our newsreader, but we have the right to cancel your
>messages."?

help > agent.ini > message
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GenerateId=<n> (default is 2)
NewsIdFormat=<n> (default is 0)
MailIdFormat=<n> (default is 0)

   These three parameters control how Agent generates message-ids
   for outbound messages.
   
   Parameter GenerateId is obsolete, but is still supported for 
   backward compatibility with old installations.
   Parameter NewsIdFormat and MailIdFormat control the format of the 
   ids for usenet and email messages, respectively, and are normally
   used for new installations.
   
   Agent can generate three different formats:
   
   
   <md5>@4AX.COM
   
   <md5> is a globally-unique string, generated from random state on 
   your PC and encoded using the MD5 algorithm.  4AX.COM is a domain 
   name owned by Forte for exclusive use by Agent for the purpose of 
   generating message-ids.
   This is the format recommended by Forte.
   
   
   <md5>@<server>
   
   <md5> is the same globally-unique string described above.   
   <server> is the name of the nntp or smtp server to which the 
   message is being posted.  This format is available for users who 
   prefer to have message-ids contain the name of the posting 
   server rather than the Forte-owned 4AX.COM domain name.
   
   
   <date.tic>@<server>
   
   <date.tic> is a number generating by combining the current date 
   and time and the Windows tick count.  <server> is the name of 
   the nntp or smtp server to which the message is being posted.
   This is the format used by previous versions of Agent.  Forte 
   recommends that this format no longer be used, since it is more 
   likely to genereate non-unique ids.
   
   The following tables shows how the combination of GenerateId 
   and <x>IdFormat control the message-idformat:
   
   In previous versions, GenerateId could have a value of 0 (false)
   or 1 (true).  If an old copy of AGENT.INI has one 
   of these two values, Agent ignores the new <x>IDFormat parameters,
   and generates Ids using the format specified in the first table
   
   below.  As of version 1.6, the default value is 2, which tells
   Agent to use the new <x>IDFormat parameters instead,
   specified in the second table.
   
   
   GenerateId	Format
   ----------     ------
   0		Do not generate Ids
   1		Generate <md5>@4AX.COM
   2		Use the <x>IDFormat parameters
   
   <x>IDFormat	Format (when GenerateId=2)
   -----------	--------------------------
   0		<md5>@4AX.COM
   1		<md5>@<server>
   2		Do not generate Ids
   3		<date.tic>@<server>