Subj : message-id
To   : Scott Little
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Nov 13 2002 05:27 am

Hi Scott.


 JB>> the easiest way to ge unique numbers is to use each number once.
 JB>> the easiest way to do that is just to use them in order.

 SL> Which means using a single source.

 yeah, that's the only way that i can see of doing FTS-19 in a bulletproof
 manner.

 or you coulsd make a list of all the used ones and check each one hasn't
 been used in the last three years :)

 JB>> @MSGIDUNIQUE

 SL> Good idea, but rofl!

 SL> Fidonet.  The amateur Microsoft.

 SL> Are you sure this unique ID is really unique? [Y/n] _

yeah... you get that.

 JB>> or maybe it could go in the address part of the msgid, not sure
 JB>> how really.

 SL> Was it decided that three fields in MSGID would break things?

it looks that way from reading fts-19

It says the serial number comes before the end of line so some progs may
juse uset the last 8 hexdigits on the line while others may use the first 8
after the address part and the space....

 -=> Bye <=-

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