MK> What is bothering me at the moment is the MSGID generation.  I
 MK> have figured out how to avoid different users on a multiuser
 MK> system creating the same MSGID in the same area (a very real
 MK> possibility) but am still pondering a different routine then
 MK> one based on day,hour,min,sec seeing that the txt2pkt.pl takes
 MK> only 0.053 seconds on average to do one message.  As is that
 MK> means that any one user has the potential of creating roughly
 MK> 20 different messages per session with the same MSGID, which
 MK> would cause Fido compliant tossers upstream to barf them out
 MK> as dupes which they aren't.  I don't want to  slow this down
 MK> any so I'll have to consider something else, other then
 MK> randomness that is.  Any insight there you'd care to share?

quite simply, use a serial counter just like many *nix mail programs do ;)

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