Re: SBBS/W32 Kermit SABOTAGE
  By: Paul Westell to Rob Swindell on Wed Oct 13 2004 01:55 pm

 > Oct 13 11:22 04, Rob Swindell wrote to Paul Westell:
 > 
 >  RS> the 3rd "field" is a just an additional, truely
unique value, creating 
 > truely unique message-ID, making-up for the diffiencies of FTS-9. The 4th
 >  RS> "field" is just a repeat of the 32-bit
"serialno", just incase some
 > software somewhere parses out the serialno (from right to left).
 > 
 > "Truly unique" is an oxymoron and I don't buy it. It looks
more like part of
 > your databasing.

No, it's a result of my efforts to a generate a unique string per message.

 > If you must include it in the kludge, why not just place it on a line by
 > itself?

Because the whole point is to generate a unique Message-ID.

 > That would make messages originating from an SBBS system more compatable wit
 > existing softwear, and keep more of them from being tossed in the bit-bucket
 > bad.

So far, I've yet to hear of any software that does that with messages
originating from an SBBS system. If you have a specific example, please give
it.

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