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|    Static to Edmund Wong    |
|    Re: NNTP server    |
|    03 Dec 21 01:40:39    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47       MSGID: 1:249/400 0dc9abbd       REPLY: 1:153/7083 a891132c       TZUTC: -0500       On 02 Dec 2021, Edmund Wong said the following...        EW> Posting to the newsgroup (local) isn't a problem; but, when        EW> I log on to mystic, and do a reply to the local message,        EW> and then I go into the newsgroup, and read that reply message,        EW> I see a different message.              I ran into this with Thunderbird a while back and essentially what you're       seeing is a result of the interaction between your client and the way the       Mystic NNTP server reports message IDs. I know g00r00 has been aware of the       thing with IDs but has had limited time to prioritize it so far.              Mystic at present uses the post number in the message area as the NNTP        message ID so for example every area with posts in it will each have a message       with ID 1.              Seamonkey/Thunderbird on the other hand expects unique IDs per server so when       reading it will check its cache for a given message ID and just show you that       before trying to download anything. The client makes no distinction about       which message area/newsgroup you're currently looking at if it has that ID       cached already. Some other news clients happen to account for this       possibility, although the RFC doesn't require them to.              NNTP Message-IDs don't have to be numeric or have any correlation to the       message's slot in the messagebase so there's a lot of possible approaches to       generating them based on message contents or metadata.              ... "No comment" is a comment.              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)        * Origin: Subcarrier BBS (1:249/400)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 428 452 550 664 700 240/5832 249/206 307 317       SEEN-BY: 249/400 282/1038 292/854 301/1 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/280       PATH: 249/400 229/426           |
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