From: tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Tom Wheeley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Gbasic (from V2GNU) - Beeps when running + posibility or running in a DOS window in WIN95 (newbie questions)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 97 00:55:53 GMT
Organization: Adventures and Diving
Message-ID: <859251353snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
References: <01bc37b0$fec92c60$LocalHost AT mskrede> <859150096snz AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> <01bc37db$d2b0d120$5e0520ce AT coolio-s-server>
Reply-To: tw104 AT york DOT ac DOT uk
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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In article <01bc37db$d2b0d120$5e0520ce AT coolio-s-server>
           coolio AT coolio9 DOT com "Dennis Moran" writes:

> Tom Wheeley <tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote in article
> <859150096snz AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>...
> > In article <01bc37b0$fec92c60$LocalHost AT mskrede>
> >            mskrede AT online DOT no "Marit Skrede" writes:
> > 
> > > Mime-Version: 1.0
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> > > X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1157
> > 
> > MIME does not belong in News.  Dump that piece of Microsoft trash.
> > 
> > Oh, and it also creates broken Message-Id's. `mskrede' is not your
> > hostname.
> >
> 
> It's his username. m for Marit, skrede is his last name. I use MS Internet
> News, works fine for me. But for some reason he decided to turn on MIME
> encoding...

So?  For a valid message-Id the part after the @ must be your hostname.
Otherwise it would not be possible to specify that *every* Message-Id in the
world is unique; which is the idea, so that news servers can remove duplicates

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:sb)