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|    Message 42 of 1,237    |
|    Maurice Kinal to All    |
|    a brand new day    |
|    24 May 11 20:13:06    |
      Hey All!              A new tearline with three hex id fields delimited by '.', where the       first field is the wireless user's name, the second the echo's id and       the third the message's id. For this echo the id will remain the same       even if it is crossposted to a different echo and could be used to check       if a message was indeed crossposted. The user's id should be consistent       no matter where that user posts. The last field is the only field that       is unique but is possible to duplicate on a multiuser system if two or       more users create a message at the same time which is why the user id is       employed in case of that event and the two or more messages in any given       echobase should still be unique. A bit of overkill but it should       address a more active multiuser system's concern about uniqueness. I've       seen it happen although not for roughly a decade now.              What do you think? Is it a keeper?              Life is good,       Maurice              --- WeBeBashing 8ec52452.f86639ed.38a4b237        * Origin: Pointy Stick Society (1:261/38.9)    |
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