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   Hello Wilfred!   
      
    AA>> Not if the hash includes the entire msg and the date posted.   
      
    WvV> Ok. But the serial based ones are still better. ;)   
      
      
   I can see that to be the case as well.  A serial-style also has     
   a built-in chronological feature.   
      
    WvV>  H:\myutils>> rando2   
    AA>> lfz$bkmcmmg36ye@jll1xpieaats   
      
    WvV> Those aren't 32 bit.   
      
   Ah... so the "serialno" part *must" be 8-char?  Then rando could     
   still work like so:   
      
   H:\myutils>rando   
   yZn=ZRG-   
   i)G)0ej=   
   YwSj-6B+   
   kwg5r(aR   
   Fp902h8A   
   lFyNVofN   
   R)5vlK+(   
   Sg7y-pPE   
   DDvCC2Sm   
   mX20Wj3d   
   ()AO8oN\   
   \DTe29VA   
   4xqhDjbB   
   QXK\uqOs   
      
    :D   
      
      
    WvV> there's always a change of a collision within 3 years.   
      
   Yes.. I've suspected that could be problematic.  But look at the     
   variation produced above. My math for calculating the minimum     
   number of possibilies (if excluding characters like "(, ), \, =,     
   -, etc.." and only allowing for the letters of the alphabet,     
   upper and lower case, is: 52^8  That's a lot more than just a     
   plain hex version: 16^8.   
      
   Echomail traffic would have to attain avalanche proportions     
   before collisions would be a concern.   ;)   
      
      
    AA>> I remember something about the MSGID being referred to as a two-   
    AA>> part string with "origaddr" + "serialno", where "origaddr" is   
    AA>> intended to be a qualified "address of the originating system".   
      
    WvV> No: "... address for the originating network"   
    WvV>                                      ^^^^^^^   
      
      
   Ah.. that little word "for" makes a big difference.  :   
      
   Then the synchronet version adds some added uniqueness.   
      
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