Re: Unique MSGID/Scoring replies to my posts

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:17:36PM +0200, Jakub Kamecki wrote:
> I'm trying to switch from slrn. A feature that is quite useful is
> scoring replies to my posts. To do that I need to have a unique msgid.
> When using slrn my msgids looked something along the lines of
> *[email protected]. When I post with tin I get the for instance such
> msgids:
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> (During the switch the nntp server hasn't changed)

tin usualy doesn't create Message-IDs (and those Message-IDs do not look
like ones beeing created from tin). if you do not creat your own Message-IDs
you could try the tinrc option "add_posted_to_filter". depending on the
servers POST response it will add the Subject or the Message-ID of your own
postimngs to your filter file - you can't do fancy stuff with that but for
most users this will suffice.

> What I would like tin to do is to put something unique in the msgid.
> Doesn't really matter what, just as long as it's unique.

you could force tin to create a message-id via the compile time option
"EVIL_INSIDE" (define in the CFLAGS in src/Makefile). you get a uniqe
Message-ID (if your host isn't missconfigured - you need a valid FQDN)
and can used that for scoring (examples are given at the end of
doc/filtering).

> Tin -V output
> Version: 1.5.12 release 20020311 ("Toxicity") Mar 17 2002 02:49:22

JFYI: this is an old _unstable_ version. current stable version is 1.6.2, current
unstable version is 1.7.9

HTH, urs
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