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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Ideas for Message-ID's
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.050749.22115@looking.on.ca>
Date: 22 Mar 91 05:07:49 GMT
References: <3427@litchi.bbn.com>
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Is there any reason for the message-id to be readable?   The date is
elsewhere in the message, and indeed elsewhere in the history file to
some extent.

I say make it as small as you can, either the sequence number, which
is smallest, or a radix 85 (or however many safe characters there are in
message-ids) encoding of the minute and process-id, with epoch when
you started your site up.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473