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Re: Forging an NNTP header Message-ID
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:17:42 GMT
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:07:03 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
> Hey all NNTP gurus,
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> How does one construct an NNTP header Message-ID? Is there an algorighm?
> Is it random?
It is assigned by the newsserver to which you post. The Heder fields
from your message, divided into first things you do have to provide:
> Newsgroups: lugnet.off-topic.geek
> From: Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com>
> X-Real-Life-Name: Jeremy H. Sproat
(okay, this one's a special case - Lugnet innd has been modified to
auto-insert this one - on most newsservers you'd have to provide it
yourself if you so desired.)
> Subject: Forging an NNTP header Message-ID
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Reply-To: jsproat@io.com
> X-Accept-Language: en
> Organization: Jeremy H. Sproat
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I)
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:07:03 GMT
These headers are all added by the server:
> Xref: lugnet.com lugnet.off-topic.geek:223
> Path: lugnet.com!lugnet
> Message-ID: <378A6707.D2DDBBF7@io.com>
> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: iamdan.provo.novell.com
> Lines: 32
Jasper
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| Hey all NNTP gurus, How does one construct an NNTP header Message-ID? Is there an algorighm? Is it random? I'm writing a script in Perl which would use Net::NNTP to submit an article to an NNTP server. However, I would need to supply the entire text (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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