Subj : Re: NNTP server
To   : Edmund Wong
From : Static
Date : Fri Dec 03 2021 01:40 am

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.

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