Subj : talking to myself
To   : Russell Tiedt
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu Feb 17 2005 09:52 am

Hey Russell!

Feb 17 18:13 05, Russell Tiedt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RT> Hmmm ... , I figure they are useful, and can be mayhap made better 
 RT> use of than 
 RT> they currently are, so I'm not to keen on dropping them (msgid's) too 
 RT> quickly. 
 RT> :-)

How are you using them?  Do they work good for that/those reason(s)?

 RT> Seems a reasonable solution ...

Offhand it does but then as Mark pointed out it is a bit of overkill.  It still 
doesn't resolve dupechecking but makes it a tad more accountable methinks, even 
if pkt sizes aren't an issue.  If the pkt size isn't an issue, then I can just 
increment the seconds within the message loop, derive the 8.3 file naming 
scheme from the original base ID, and decrease processing time simply because 
it doesn't need to repeat the loop after every 16 messages.  Also it could 
still use the 8 character MSGID limitation by doing the bit shifting only on 
the base ID which doesn't increase processing time within the message loop but 
does make it a tad less meaningful to the human eye.  I think 10 characters 
makes it a tad more humanly readable but that really isn't a big deal ... is 
it?

Life is good,
Maurice

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