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   Hello Maurice!   
      
    MK> It won't matter since two or more systems will have two or more unique   
    MK> addresses..   
      
    MK>   MSGID: 1:153/7001.0 01234567   
    MK>   MSGID: 1:153/7001.1 01234567   
      
   OH!  Ok, if dupe-checking takes into consideration the "address"     
   part along with the "serialno" part, then uniqueness is pretty     
   good as it stands.   
      
   I thought the concern was that some dupe-check implementations     
   only use the "serialno" part.   
      
    MK> ..As for random collisions there isn't any guarentee that   
    MK> either of the above two systems won't create a collision   
    MK> within three years no matter how remote that possibility   
    MK> is..   
      
   True. There could very well be a collision created on the same     
   system given enough time.   
      
    MK> whereas the serial number created by the number of seconds   
    MK> since 1970|1900 should NEVER create a collision within it's   
    MK> lifetime, 2106 in my particular case..   
      
   Good point. That guarantees uniqueness. You win.   
      
    MK> ..Adding more characters doesn't add meaning or additional   
    MK> functionality to it.   
      
   BUT.. you must agree that the likely hood of two rando numbers     
   colliding given that any of the 8 chars in the serialno part can     
   be [a-z][A-Z][0-9] at 62^8, is pretty unlikely.   
      
   Even a serial number based on an incremental 8 char string with     
   [a-z][A-Z][0-9] could work too.   
      
   I'm amazed how long the services of TinyURL have relied on 8-    
   char uniqueness.  As far as I can tell they only use the     
   lowercase letters + the numbers:   
      
   https://tinyurl.com/ydpdc3td   
   https://tinyurl.com/ydt9y4os   
      
    ..the service as been operating for a l-o-n-g time.   
      
      
   And, now that we've totally bored the vast number of ASIAN_LINK     
   listeners, we should probably move to something less technical.   
      
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