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  • How to interpret newsgroup headers

    From Arthur McLain@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 26 05:13:00 2016
    Below are some typical headers. I'm just wondering what each group of characters means. Some change during use, some change when the power is turned off. Others stay the same. Just curious.

    If there is a newsgroups specific to headers, I would ask someone to please let me know.

    Thanks in advance.

    Art

    Typical examples... I added the spaces to separate the groups...

    Day 1
    news:rJr dn YhJkuryj T G RhD5iwII3- Ru r [email protected]...
    news:scD dn EfUhIKWU 1 G RhD5iwII3- fH r [email protected]...
    news:yuN dn TsDf7ttH l G RhD5iwII3- a2 r [email protected]...

    Computer off

    Day 2
    news:PRA dn S9Fj_Dz6 S 3 RhD5iwII3- bF J [email protected]

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  • From Arthur McLain@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 26 05:14:05 2016
    PS - It's easier to see the grouping using a fixed font.


    "Arthur McLain" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    Below are some typical headers. I'm just wondering what each group of characters means. Some change during use, some change when the power is turned off. Others stay the same. Just curious.

    If there is a newsgroups specific to headers, I would ask someone to please let me know.

    Thanks in advance.

    Art

    Typical examples... I added the spaces to separate the groups...

    Day 1
    news:rJr dn YhJkuryj T G RhD5iwII3- Ru r [email protected]...
    news:scD dn EfUhIKWU 1 G RhD5iwII3- fH r [email protected]...
    news:yuN dn TsDf7ttH l G RhD5iwII3- a2 r [email protected]...

    Computer off

    Day 2
    news:PRA dn S9Fj_Dz6 S 3 RhD5iwII3- bF J [email protected]

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  • From Barry Margolin@21:1/5 to Arthur McLain on Fri Feb 26 12:15:23 2016
    In article <[email protected]>,
    "Arthur McLain" <[email protected]> wrote:

    Below are some typical headers. I'm just wondering what each group of characters means. Some change during use, some change when the power is turned off. Others stay the same. Just curious.

    Are you asking how to interpret Message IDs? Each newsreader has its
    own, ideosyncratic method for generating them. They're generally a
    combination of some characters that are generated from information
    unique to the client machine, so they won't conflict with posts from
    other clients, and some characters generated from the posting time, so
    that messages from the same client will not have duplicate IDs.

    In your case, I'd guess the RHD5iwII3 part is the machine-specific part,
    while the stuff to the left of it comes from the time.


    If there is a newsgroups specific to headers, I would ask someone to please let me know.

    Thanks in advance.

    Art

    Typical examples... I added the spaces to separate the groups...

    Day 1
    news:rJr dn YhJkuryj T G RhD5iwII3- Ru r [email protected]...
    news:scD dn EfUhIKWU 1 G RhD5iwII3- fH r [email protected]...
    news:yuN dn TsDf7ttH l G RhD5iwII3- a2 r [email protected]...

    Computer off

    Day 2
    news:PRA dn S9Fj_Dz6 S 3 RhD5iwII3- bF J [email protected]

    --
    Barry Margolin, [email protected]
    Arlington, MA
    *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***

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  • From Jorgen Grahn@21:1/5 to Barry Margolin on Fri Feb 26 17:53:18 2016
    On Fri, 2016-02-26, Barry Margolin wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    "Arthur McLain" <[email protected]> wrote:

    Below are some typical headers. I'm just wondering what each group of
    characters means. Some change during use, some change when the power is
    turned off. Others stay the same. Just curious.

    Are you asking how to interpret Message IDs? Each newsreader has its
    own, ideosyncratic method for generating them.

    And the OP can read more about them e.g. here:

    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3977
    Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
    A.2. Message-IDs

    /Jorgen

    --
    // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . .
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  • From Tristan Wibberley@21:1/5 to Arthur McLain on Sun Mar 3 16:25:25 2024
    On 26/02/2016 13:13, Arthur McLain wrote:
    Below are some typical headers. I'm just wondering what each group of characters means. Some change during use, some change when the power is turned off. Others stay the same. Just curious.

    If there is a newsgroups specific to headers, I would ask someone to please let me know.

    rfc5536 specifies article header interpretation, mostly.

    The IETF seems to run this web rfc reader, I didn't see a newsgroup for
    rfc updates: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5536


    Day 1
    news:rJr dn YhJkuryj T G RhD5iwII3- Ru r [email protected]...
    news:scD dn EfUhIKWU 1 G RhD5iwII3- fH r [email protected]...
    news:yuN dn TsDf7ttH l G RhD5iwII3- a2 r [email protected]...

    Those don't seem to be headers, they seem to be URIs except there seems
    to be whitespace so probably not valid news URIs.

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