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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Long message IDs (was Re: attcan't?)
Message-ID: <1989May10.160925.29580@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Wed, 10 May 89 16:09:25 GMT

In article <1394@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn) writes:
>>A visible sense of sequence would be nice. How about something in the
>>middle - a 9-digit representation of seconds, similar to the way it's
>>used in the Cnews history file, together with the process ID?
>
>I like this.  This would satisfy Geoff's requirement for unique IDs without
>having to keep a separate message counter file that could get truncated.
>It may not be as easily generated from standard unix tools, though...

Geoff and I have tentatively decided to do this, in fact.  It's easy; we
already have a program called "getdate" (and its inverse, ctime) for use
in bits of housekeeping.
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