Subj : talking to myself
To   : Russell Tiedt
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sat Feb 12 2005 09:24 am

Hey Russell!

Feb 11 17:32 05, Russell Tiedt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RT> A MSGID is a valued item here, especially when it comes to dupe 
 RT> checking, so 
 RT> if you are able to generate them fast enough, then please do so.

Generating them fast isn't a big issue but making them meaningful is a tad 
tricky given the accepted "standard", if I can be so bold as to call it a 
"standard".

If based on time and/or date (is there a difference?) then it slows things down 
and given the current limitation makes it even trickier and slower.  That is 
why I thought a base ID at the start and incrementation within a loop for 
multiple messages might be a better objective as it wouldn't add any extra 
calls and is faster then calling localtime for each one, which will produce 
dupes that aren't dupes if limited to seconds on a fast machine.  This way it 
won't matter even if the machine is slow enough to produce unique IDs using 
seconds.  This method does speed things up and should produce unique IDs for 
whatever length of years as bits allocated to the "year" employed.

Life is good,
Maurice

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