Hello Wilfred!

** On Wednesday 14.04.21 - 10:32, you wrote to me:

 WvV> But I think you are confusing the MSGID genererating side
 WvV> and the dupe detecting on the other side of the fence. ;)

Nah.. I don't think I am.

 WvV> The MSGID generating side must try to prevent collisions.
 WvV> The dupe detecting side can only respond to it by making
 WvV> the detecting algorithm as robust as possible.

I pretty much see it that way too.

The idea behind generating the MSGID is to produce a string that  
is unique.

The idea behind dupe detection is to identify with high  
certainty another message that is exactly the same.

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