Re: newbie question

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Sep 08 2006, Jens Theisen wrote:

> Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:
>
>> Notice the Message-Id of your own postings.  They have a pattern which
>> makes them fairly unique to yourself: 

I don't think the first 2-3 chars are sufficient for this purpose.

>> The first few characters after `<' are always the same.  (They are
>> a hash of your username.)
>
> I don't think my identity is part of this. 

It is.  Your MIDs always start with "<87".  See the function
`message-unique-id' and (info "(gnus)Followups To Yourself").

BTW: http://my.gnus.org/faq/html-chunks/FAQ.html#id2532028

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| People tell me my Message-IDs are not correct, why aren't they and how
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