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|    Re: %random% is not random?    |
|    28 Nov 23 07:59:25    |
      From: address@is.invalid              JJ,              > Interresting. It seems like the first use of the randomizer is       > like using timestamp solely for the random seed.              Yup. But why do they output it ?              I thought it would be so you could use it to re-create a certain "random"       set of numbers, but I do not see any way to manually set the seed.              Regards,       Rudy Wieser              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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