Bad news folks.  The message reader 'timEd', by Gerard van Essen
(2:281/527{at}fidonet), is currently generating invalid MSGID serial numbers. 
The MSGIDs currently being generated by timEd are therefore in violation of
FTS-9.

Starting from July 9, 1995 at ~07:13, timEd's MSGID serial number
generating algorithm rolled over from 'ffffffff' to '0'.  But instead of
generating

    ^aMSGID: 3:633/267.1 000001e4

timEd generates

    ^aMSGID: 3:633/267.1 1e4

instead.  FTS-9 requires the serial number to be be an eight character
hexadecimal number; this is three characters, violating the standard.

Judging by the brief testing I performed, it appears the invalid MSGID
serial numbers will cease on January 19, 1996 at ~10:33.  The version I
tested was 1.01, but it appears older (beta) versions of timEd contain this
bug, as well as the 'NetMgr' program (also written by Gerard).

andrew

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