On 2017 Jan 27 21:49:04, you wrote to me:

 MK>>>> Cool.  How about this one?  Extra-special datetime with a following
 MK>>>> extra-special uuid to eliminate the MSGID as well as it's evil,
 MK>>>> demented twin the REPLY.  'cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid' was
 MK>>>> deployed within a bash script to generate the uuid but could be
 MK>>>> created by a number of utilities on a lesser capable OS.

 WV>>> How about we all ignore Maurices rants to break fidonet standards,
 WV>>> that will cause problems in the network!

 ml>> how will that uuid cause problems?

 WV> Maurice wanted to "_eliminate_ the MSGID as well as it's evil, demented
 WV> twin the REPLY".

i still fail to see how UUID would cause problems based on that...

 WV> But I noticed he already found out for himself that's not a good
 WV> idea...

it doesn't hurt, though...

 WV> I have no problem with a seperate extra kludge line for the uuid.
 WV> Software that supports it could use it for a better way of dupe
 WV> detection.

i think that is one of the thoughts behind it... i would consider to copy the
original to a ^aRUUID: line for reply linking, too...

 ml>> hell, even his time stamp thing could be done...

 ml>>   ^aTIME: 1:2/3.4@fidonet 2017-01-26 09:31:07.545911414+00:00

 WV> It's almost like a 'Via' kludge line in echomail. ;)

other than VIA is netmail, not echomail, they are close certainly but not the
same... there may be more than one ^aVIA line in netmail and they are all
placed at the end of the message with new ones being added to the bottom of the
list...

)\/(ark

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