BJ> Ah.....  Who / what program is generating the "dupes"?  The msgid
 BJ> standard that I think Squish / Maximus implemented has a problem if
 BJ> one tries to generate two messages (or more) within one (or was it
 BJ> two) second(s).  Back when the design was done, it wasn't possible to
 BJ> generate messages that fast.

 MT> The 2 second granularity is in Scott's header dupe-
 MT> checking...not MSGID.  He gave 32 bits for 
 MT> To/From/Subject hash and 32 bits for date+time for a 64-bit ID.

I believe there was something else at the time that also drove the 2 second
decision -- that was out of other fido based sosftware implementations. 
I'll agree that we need to change the code that is based on a one or two
second rule in the future.  But, I would like to see a
"compatible" version of Maximus/Squish running under Linux before
we start changing any data structures.  There are some (such as my sself)
that will want to transition existing data structures from running systems
to a Linux based system.....

Thanks for the note.

Bob Jones, 1:343/41

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