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Re: link-threads: No Message-ID ???



* On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 Michael D Schleif (mds@xxxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> * Michael Tatge <Michael.Tatge@xxxxxx> [2004:01:21:03:32:32+0100] scribed:
> > * On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 Michael D Schleif (mds@xxxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> > > 
> > >    Subject: TEST #1
> > >    Message-ID: 1073710002-7884@mimetools
                    ^                         ^
> > >    Subject: TEST #2
> > >    Message-ID: 1073710002-12669@mimetools
                    ^                          ^
> > > Clearly, each message contains a Message-ID header
> > 
> > Why yes but a broken one. See http://cr.yp.to/immhf/thread.html

"In theory a message identifier is tokenizable; it contains a < token,
an encoded address, and a > token."

The main point is <> are missing. Add them and try link-threads again.

> I do not know what is `822bis'; nor do I take issue with DJB's point;
> but, the fact remains that the following string is decidedly _absent_
> from my cited RFC's:
> 
>    ``SHOULD be the domain name of the host on which it was created''

rfc 822:
msg-id      =  "<" addr-spec ">"            ; Unique message id
addr-spec   =  local-part "@" domain        ; global address

HTH,

Michael
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