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From: tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Message-ID's
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Date: 22 Mar 91 04:41:31 GMT
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rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:

>How about this one
>	<yydddss.pppp@host>

How about:

   <tttttttt.pppp@host>

   where:    tttttttt is the return value of time(2) in base-16
     and:    pppp is the process id

At the time I posted this, t == 27e988be.  That's only 8 characters.
If you went to a larger radix this would be smaller.

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