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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