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Re: Forging an NNTP header Message-ID
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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,

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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  Forging an NNTP header Message-ID
 
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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