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   Hey Wilfred!   
      
    MK>>   $ date --date="@$(printf "%d" 0x5fc6f369)"   
    MK>> Wed 02 Dec 2020 01:52:41 AM UTC   
      
    WvV> That's a broken MSGID implementation, because it could be   
    WvV> possible your system generates 2 (or more) messages in the same   
    WvV> second (maybe automated ones).   
      
   Understood.  I noticed that way back in the 1990's and brought it up back   
   then.  However for a single user application such as what I am doing this is   
   not an issue.  Basically all I've done is to write an offline application   
   using a slightly modified FTN MSG format that generates it's own MSGID so that   
   when tossed by a regular automated tosser such as hpt (not abandonware ...   
   yet) there shouldn't be an issue with dupes since there are none.  Right?   
      
    MK>> ... A Møøse once bit my sister ...   
      
    WvV> Illegal characters without a CHRS: kludge!   
      
   Again it appears to be working without a useless CHRS kludge, especially in   
   the case of UTF-8 as the above quote clearly demonstrates.  Also with older   
   16-bit DOS editors quoting UTF-8 characters works 100% which cannot be said   
   about most (all?) FTN compliant editors.   
      
    WvV> (And yes I know mine isn't correct ;-))   
      
   It doesn't matter since it does nothing.  It's the 8-bit character sets,   
   especially the so-called LATIN-1 codes, that are totally fscked up.  Ignore it   
   and there is no problem.  :-)   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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