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    From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to all on Mon Sep 2 21:26:13 2013


    what does the last sequence of characters in the following PIDs signify?

    PID: ALLFIX+ 6.00.18 EFF59863
    PID: ALLFIX/2+ 6.00.18 A397509A

    is it supposed to be a MSGID serial number or is it some kind of registration number?

    the reason i ask is because i'm seeing some allfix v6.0 announcements in my dupes area... none of them have MSGIDs... however, my allfix 5.13 does generate
    proper MSGIDs and it also has similar numbers to the above on the PID line...

    thanks for any help with this!

    )\/(ark


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  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/1 to mark lewis on Wed Sep 4 20:10:03 2013

    Monday September 02 2013 21:26, mark lewis wrote to all:

    what does the last sequence of characters in the following PIDs
    signify?

    PID: ALLFIX+ 6.00.18 EFF59863
    PID: ALLFIX/2+ 6.00.18 A397509A

    is it supposed to be a MSGID serial number or is it some kind of registration number?

    It is not MSGID. I think it is some kind of 'serial' number and it will identify the system. My Allfix/2 seems to put every time the same string there,
    but with the exactly same setup the UNI version puts different one.

    'Tommi

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  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/0 to mark lewis on Wed Sep 4 20:40:11 2013

    02 Sep 13 21:26, you wrote to all:

    the reason i ask is because i'm seeing some allfix v6.0 announcements
    in my dupes area... none of them have MSGIDs... however, my allfix
    5.13 does generate proper MSGIDs and it also has similar numbers to
    the above on the PID line...

    I also noticed that if Allfix creates announces into msgbase, it will not put MSGID's there. However, when it creates announces as .PKT's, it will put MSGID's ok.

    I think this is ok because it is tossers job to create MSGID's when sending messages out.

    'Tommi

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Tommi Koivula on Thu Sep 5 11:44:50 2013

    On Wed, 04 Sep 2013, Tommi Koivula wrote to mark lewis:

    what does the last sequence of characters in the following PIDs
    signify?

    PID: ALLFIX+ 6.00.18 EFF59863
    PID: ALLFIX/2+ 6.00.18 A397509A

    is it supposed to be a MSGID serial number or is it some kind of registration number?

    It is not MSGID. I think it is some kind of 'serial' number and it
    will identify the system. My Allfix/2 seems to put every time the
    same string there, but with the exactly same setup the UNI version
    puts different one.

    that's what i thought after a little more looking... so then the question is why is the new allfix 6 not generating MSGID lines like allfix 5 does?

    )\/(ark


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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Tommi Koivula on Thu Sep 5 11:45:55 2013

    On Wed, 04 Sep 2013, Tommi Koivula wrote to mark lewis:

    the reason i ask is because i'm seeing some allfix v6.0
    announcements in my dupes area... none of them have MSGIDs...
    however, my allfix 5.13 does generate proper MSGIDs and it also
    has similar numbers to the above on the PID line...

    I also noticed that if Allfix creates announces into msgbase, it
    will not put MSGID's there. However, when it creates announces as
    .PKT's, it will put MSGID's ok.

    that's not right... MSGIDs should be created in both cases...

    I think this is ok because it is tossers job to create MSGID's when sending messages out.

    incorrect... it is the job of the posting or message creation tool to create the MSGIDs... message tossers should not be creating or altering MSGIDs...

    )\/(ark


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