Re: Listserv/Netnews gatewaying

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1 total messages Started by Linda Littleton Tue, 20 Feb 1990 17:17

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Author: Linda Littleton
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 17:17

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In article <NETNWS-L%90021417271052@NDSUVM1.BITNET>, Thomas Habernoll
<HABERNOL@DB0TUI11.BITNET> says:

>On Wed, 14 Feb 90 16:19:00 EST Linda Littleton said:
>>We've been creating a message-id if it is missing.  The message-id is
>>created by using data on the 'from' and 'date' lines of the file.

>This is dangerous. Don't do it. This is dangerous. If the gateway is
>subscribed to a Listserv list in the right way (i.e. with Fullheader
>option), the header is guaranteed to have a message-id. If there is
>no message-id then something is dead wrong, and the article should better
>be deleted, or forwarded to the maintainer, or anything else except
>feeding it into Netnews.

Ok, we're no longer manufacturing message-ids.  Only a few articles are
coming in without them - from advise-l, online-l, and everything from
Comserve.

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