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Hi August,

On 2021-04-10 20:58:00, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 AA> For msgid purposes why not just generate a 6 to 9 character hash
 AA> based on the content of the message?  That would ALWAYS be
 AA> unique and never repeat for a l-o-n-g time.

There are those moderator messages that stay the same for ages...

 AA> The current approach for msgid has been to have serial number.
 AA> But why can't it be a simple hash?

A good secure hash, needs a lot of cpu to be calculated.

 AA> Synchronet systems have come up with another unique approach to
 AA> the MSGID line which seems to cooperate with existing systems
 AA> quite well.

It isn't according to the standard, which might cause some problems on other
systems.

And I think it went like this: They miss used the MSGID to store some internal
information for their messagebase, and came up with an excuse afterwards, when
it was difficult to correct.

Bye, Wilfred.

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