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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