Re: Re: Synchronet config change
  By: Wilfred van Velzen to Rob Swindell on Thu Mar 07 2024 08:14 am

 > Hi Rob,
 >
 > On 06 Mar 24 17:31, Rob Swindell wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
 >   about: "Re: Synchronet config change":
 >
 >  >>  RS> @MSGID: 1:103/705 65e8cd2a
 >  >>
 >  >> Finally a normal MSGID from a synchronet system! ;-)
 >
 >  RS> Yeah, and it's a clearly-flawed one at that:
 >  RS> time_t   1709755690  (0x65E8CD2A)    ISO 2024-03-06 12:08:10.000-08:00
 >
 > That isn't a problem as long as it doesn't re-use it in 3 years. And it
 > doesn't.

It would be a problem if any other agent on my system created a message at that same second using that same broken message-ID format. The timestamp should never be used as the serial number.
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