TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
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   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221   
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   REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet ef514dc6   
   Hi August,   
      
   On 2021-04-11 20:56:00, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:   
      
    AA> I thought the concern was that some dupe-check implementations   
    AA> only use the "serialno" part.   
      
   If they do that is a bug in the software.   
      
    MK>> ..Adding more characters doesn't add meaning or additional   
    MK>> functionality to it.   
      
    AA> BUT.. you must agree that the likely hood of two rando numbers   
    AA> colliding given that any of the 8 chars in the serialno part can   
    AA> be [a-z][A-Z][0-9] at 62^8, is pretty unlikely.   
      
    AA> Even a serial number based on an incremental 8 char string with   
    AA> [a-z][A-Z][0-9] could work too.   
      
   My suggestion for anyone who thinks the current MSGID isn't good enough and   
   needs improving, is to not mess with the MSGID itself, because it is a FTSC   
   standard, and systems more or less depend on it to be according to that   
   standard.   
      
   Just create a new kludge, so you can do with it what you want, and you are   
   guaranteed not to cause any problems.   
   For instance:   
      
   @UUID: cd882502-9b77-11eb-a8b3-0242ac130003   
      
   It's 128 bit so the collision problem is virtually non existent, and you don't   
   have to bother with the address. And most modern OS's have standard optimized   
   routines to generate a good and secure number like this.   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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