Hey Russell!

Feb 17 18:13 05, Russell Tiedt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RT> Hmmm ... , I figure they are useful, and can be mayhap made better 
 RT> use of than 
 RT> they currently are, so I'm not to keen on dropping them (msgid's) too 
 RT> quickly. 
 RT> :-)

How are you using them?  Do they work good for that/those reason(s)?

 RT> Seems a reasonable solution ...

Offhand it does but then as Mark pointed out it is a bit of overkill.  It
still doesn't resolve dupechecking but makes it a tad more accountable
methinks, even if pkt sizes aren't an issue.  If the pkt size isn't an
issue, then I can just increment the seconds within the message loop,
derive the 8.3 file naming scheme from the original base ID, and decrease
processing time simply because it doesn't need to repeat the loop after
every 16 messages.  Also it could still use the 8 character MSGID
limitation by doing the bit shifting only on the base ID which doesn't
increase processing time within the message loop but does make it a tad
less meaningful to the human eye.  I think 10 characters makes it a tad
more humanly readable but that really isn't a big deal ... is it?

Life is good,
Maurice

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