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From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Ideas for Message-ID's
Message-ID: <X4K23T6@taronga.hackercorp.com>
Date: 23 Mar 91 00:44:04 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.050749.22115@looking.on.ca>
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brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
> 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.

I use radix-36. The number of safe characters including punctuation really
doesn't save that much space... I'm not going to worry about an extra
byte or two.
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