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Hey August!


 AA> I thought the concern was that some dupe-check implementations
 AA> only use the "serialno" part.

You could be right about that but I was under the impression that the entire
MSGID is used.  I say we give it a try using the [:alnum:] regex which I've
taken the liberty of doing in this reply.  In my case I am using /dev/urandom
to generate the random characters in conjunction with tr and the [:alnum:]
regex to strip out 8 suitable characters as shown in the MSGID of this reply
to you.  It certainly doesn't add that much drag but I am going to reserve
judgement on that once I try it out on the slowest cpu I have running at the
moment.  It is busy upgrading itself to the newest gcc-10.3.0 release so it
might be awhile before I can give it a proper test.  Offhand I think your idea
might be best all things considered.  I still think my idea is the ultimate
but I have serious doubts about getting it adopted any time soon.  Definetly
something we have time to ponder ... or at least I do.  :-)

 AA> And, now that we've totally bored the vast number of ASIAN_LINK
 AA> listeners, we should probably move to something less technical.

Bah!  I say if they are bothered by it then they should speak up instead of
just lurking.  Besides I think we need to test your idea to see what
constitutes
valid characters in the serial number.  Once we get a better handle on what
works and what doesn't as far as acceptable characters are concerned we can
safely
drop this subject.  Offhand I think this might be a keeper.  Also I want to
try it on the EuroPoint once I get confirmation about it's validity.  Only one
way
to find out.

Sound like a plan?

Life is good,
Maurice

... Sprec ofter embe oðres monnes weldæde þonne emb ðine agna.
    Speak more often about other people's good deeds than about your own.
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