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 Message 1347 
 Wilfred van Velzen to mark lewis 
 Re: DUPES! 
 31 Oct 16 13:06:31 
 
Hi mark,

On 2016-10-28 19:14:34, you wrote to me:

 ml>>> with more dupes flying around, old school slash old style dupe
 ml>>> databases can get overrun pretty quickly...

 WV>> Eh... You are only storing a checksum of the first original. More
 WV>> dupes doesn't mean more space needed in the dupe database! ;)

 ml> that depends on the database format ;)

It shouldn't!

Dupes have by definition the same dupe-checksum as the original, so storing
them is useless!

Bye, Wilfred.

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