Header field: Message-ID

Message identifier

Applicable protocol:

Netnews (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1036.txt)

Status:

informational

Author/Change controller:

IETF (mailto:iesg@ietf.org)
Internet Engineering Task Force.

Specification document(s):

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1036.txt (section 2.1.5)

Related information:

Contains a single unique message identifier that distinguishes a given article from all other articles ever posted. All copies of that article, wherever on the network they may be found, will have that same message identifier.