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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: B-news inews patch to Message-ID line
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 90 18:10:14 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Aug26.181014.26880@looking.on.ca>
References: <651649817.25609@quack.sac.ca.us>

All I can say is, "huh?"   The change to really long message ids in C
inews was one of the things people complain about, not something people
liked.

You save one file open/read/write on the sequence file, but you add 10
bytes per message + 10 bytes/reference, or about 50,000 bytes/day on
5,000 machines, or 250 megabytes/day spread around.  (If everybody did it.)

To what purpose?

You can probably compact it a bit using the minute, in hexadecimal, rather
than the second, in decimal, if you must do this.  The liklihood of
duplication here is effectively zero.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473