RT>>> That leaves the question of how does one generate/create/format
 RT>>> a "meaningfull" base ID, and still leave enough
"space to add
 RT>>> "uniqueness"

 ml>> exactly... that's one of the things that my MSGID generating
 ml>> methodology posting touched on... for a good example, take a look at
 ml>> the messages posted in WHITEHOUSE... they all carry MSGIDs generated
 ml>> with a method from that document...

 RT> Don't get that here, but that can be changed ...

hehe, i hear ya... postings in that echo are from one of my 'bots... they
are html-stripped news releases from the whitehouse.gov site...

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