Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 31 2008, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: > >> Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> How do you make sure that two different users don't pick the same >>> prefix ("gnus", ...)? >> >> Even if they do then gnus *is* prepared to handle multiple users in the >> same host domain. > > For different machines with the same "right hand side" of the MID, the > algorithm in `message-unique-id' cannot guarantee uniqueness. It is > unlikely that the left hand side is the same, but not impossible. > > RFC 2822, says: "The message identifier (msg-id) itself MUST be a > globally unique identifier for a message.". When using the unique, > full qualified hostname, Gnus' algorithm guarantees this uniqueness.
Take a look at the issue from another side: What can stop a spammer/abuser from using gnus message-id algorithm and *your* domain name in *mass* spam runs? What I suggested allows *personal* selection of "any host" in fsf.hobby-site.com domain. -- [pl>en Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. -- Carlyle _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english