Hello mark!

mark lewis typed this on 17 Feb 96  23:58:59 about 'FTS-0501.002':

 ml> RL> Well, UMS AFAIK uses a time/datestamp. IMHO the best way.
 ml> 
 ml> if this is all that UMS uses, they are limited to a 2 second
 ml> granularity... that is, messages cnn only be posted once every two
 ml> seconds. to go faster would mean duplicate MSGIDs...

Well, when *gating* mail or news, UMS leaves the MessageID alone. I'm not
using software which posts a few hundred articles to confuse MessageIDs.

 ml> the best method is one that uses a datafile for an incremental
 ml> counter plus a time/date stamp and even a node/line/task number...

I have switched to that now (was a silly config switch, done in ten seconds),
but the line number is irrelevant since I only have one. :)

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