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bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Oct 2022 21:15:59 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
> Hmm, right (from `(message) News Headers'):
>
> ‘Message-ID’
> This required header will be generated by Message. A unique ID
> will be created based on the date, time, user name (for the local
> part) and the domain part.
>
> Actually, the user name is currently only used on MS-DOS, AFAICT.
> So I guess the documentation is already wrong?
Is says "based on", not that the user name is actually in the string.
(And it uses the uid instead, but same same.)
>> That is, we've got tricks like being able to score on References based
>> on your Message-ID to score up threads you've been a part of, etc.
>
> It seems flaky to use it for such scoring purposes though, as almost
> everyone is named "87"... Do we really have code that does that?
>
> Should we care?
I thought I remembered it being a part of the scoring section of the
manual, so either it's been removed or I misremember.
But that's the reason the algo is the way it is now -- it allows you do
do stuff based on <ID.*@big-domain.com> in References/In-reply-to etc.
If there's only one UID per domain (which is the case these days),
that's less of a thing, of course.
- bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions, (continued)
- bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/17
- bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/17
- bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions, Stefan Kangas, 2022/10/17
- bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/17
- bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions, Stefan Kangas, 2022/10/17
- bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions, Matt Armstrong, 2022/10/17
- bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions, Paul Eggert, 2022/10/17
- bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/18
bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/13