Re: Ping Troy: slrn macro

* Peter J Ross is quoted & my replies are inline below :
In news.software.readers on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:06:06 +1100, andrew
<andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Andrew, if you're reading this I apologise. For some reason my
server has not downloaded your message. Only aware of it because
of Peter and Frank's f-ups. I'll look into the reason why.

Hi Troy,

Just a quick plug for the slrn MID macro which I have taken from
your site:

http://piggo.com/~troy/slrn#mid

and utilised following some mild castigation about my slightly
gormless MID :-) Thanks for this great piece of work!

No worries! That's why I put it there :)

I'm not keen on it, since the left hand side might easily be reused
when the system time is changed. Adding two or three randomly
generated characters ought to solve this problem.

Of course the format can be changed easily with any basic
understanding of coding :)

I actually prefer it without random chars in there, because I can
look at a M-ID of mine, and now Andrew's :) , and see the exact
second posted.

Having said that, I agree with your point about system times
changing. I would have normally said "Not a problem, because my
servers run ntp and are pretty accurate", but of course once I
post it for public use, not everyone may be that accurate. Also,
I recently had a weird occurrence at work where my server skipped
ahead some 7 hours and caused all sorts of trouble with mysql and
php. I still have no idea /how/ that happened, but the time is
correct now.

What do you think about something of the format

YYYYMMDDhhmmss.xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

where xyz are random chars? I'd like to distinguish the real
date from randoms with either a "." or "_" or some other
delimiter.

I look forward
to the promised macro that will create a slightly different identity
for each group, something that I found very useful with my brief foray
into emacs / gnus.

Have you tried this one?

<http://www.emmanuelebassi.net/slrn/identity.sl>

It hasn't been updated for a while, but is currently working for me in
slrn pre0.9.9.

I have looked at that macro some time ago. Can't remember why I
didn't adopt it. Might look at it again. IIRC he has some
clever macros.

All the best for Xmas / New Year / family etc

Merry Christmas to all in news.software.readers!

Ditto! It's actually Christmas night here and I've had a few
ales. Hope the above made sense, my fingers were on auto-pilot
:) Don't ask what I was doing looking at usenet, I have no idea.

--
Troy Piggins | http://piggo.com/~troy/slrn ___ | __ __
* Currently using slrn pre0.9.9-75 |___ | |/ |/ |
* Try it: ___| | | | |
$ svn co https://slrn.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/slrn/trunk slrn
.

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