Re: msgid
  By: Pascal Schmidt to Rob Swindell on Thu Aug 26 2004 08:05 pm

 >  RS> In other words, the likely-hood of 2 different MSG-IDs producing the
 >  RS> same CRC is reduced when using longer MSG-IDs with more
 >  RS> unique-to-that-message data.
 > Correct. However, this still bears the possibility of false positives, i.e.
 > messages considered to be dupes although they had different MSGIDs. The
 > probability can be kept low by chosing an appropriate algorithm, but it's st
 > not 100% safe. Only storing and comparing the full MSGID text is safe.

I agree.

-Rob

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