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   Hey August!   
      
      
    AA> I thought the concern was that some dupe-check implementations   
    AA> only use the "serialno" part.   
      
   You could be right about that but I was under the impression that the entire   
   MSGID is used.  I say we give it a try using the [:alnum:] regex which I've   
   taken the liberty of doing in this reply.  In my case I am using /dev/urandom   
   to generate the random characters in conjunction with tr and the [:alnum:]   
   regex to strip out 8 suitable characters as shown in the MSGID of this reply   
   to you.  It certainly doesn't add that much drag but I am going to reserve   
   judgement on that once I try it out on the slowest cpu I have running at the   
   moment.  It is busy upgrading itself to the newest gcc-10.3.0 release so it   
   might be awhile before I can give it a proper test.  Offhand I think your idea   
   might be best all things considered.  I still think my idea is the ultimate   
   but I have serious doubts about getting it adopted any time soon.  Definetly   
   something we have time to ponder ... or at least I do.  :-)   
      
    AA> And, now that we've totally bored the vast number of ASIAN_LINK   
    AA> listeners, we should probably move to something less technical.   
      
   Bah!  I say if they are bothered by it then they should speak up instead of   
   just lurking.  Besides I think we need to test your idea to see what   
   constitutes   
   valid characters in the serial number.  Once we get a better handle on what   
   works and what doesn't as far as acceptable characters are concerned we can   
   safely   
   drop this subject.  Offhand I think this might be a keeper.  Also I want to   
   try it on the EuroPoint once I get confirmation about it's validity.  Only one   
   way   
   to find out.   
      
   Sound like a plan?   
      
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   Maurice   
      
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