Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!datapg!sewilco From: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: : 32-char ID duplicates Message-ID: <24116@datapg.MN.ORG> Date: 18 Dec 89 22:27:46 GMT References: <1989Dec18.034720.1117@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) Followup-To: news.admin Organization: Data Progress, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 46 Someone recently pointed out some truncated message-IDs. A search of my history files showed that they contain exactly 32 characters. Interesting number. (Sorry, all my example articles have expired here thus I don't have any Path:s) First, looking for truncations of that nonexistent domain ".uucp": <1989Dec7.194028.5875@virtech.uu> 12/16/89 00:41 <1989Dec8.173356.1749@alberta.uu> 12/15/89 23:55 <1989Dec7.211333.8216@gpu.utcs.u> 12/16/89 21:44 <1989Dec3.132456.22037@contact.u> 12/15/89 18:53 Now truncations of ".com": <1989Dec11.193312.21346@csusac.c> 12/15/89 18:26 12/15/89 23:55 And truncations of ".edu": 12/15/89 23:55 12/15/89 23:55 12/15/89 23:55 Oh, and simple truncations: 12/16/89 00:41 <2101@compugen.> 12/15/89 04:08 12/15/89 18:26 <8912081415.AA12414@richter.mit.> 12/15/89 18:53 12/15/89 18:56 <8912150803.AA04557@zit.cigy.> 12/15/89 18:47 12/15/89 18:56 <1989Dec6.190625.17207@phri.nyu.> 12/15/89 18:56 12/15/89 23:55 12/16/89 00:42 12/15/89 18:56 I did find non-truncated examples of some of these, so some of these are being posted correctly and truncated later. The two entries shorter than 32 characters might be due to posting software. The great majority of truncations are exactly 32 chars. -- Scot E. Wilcoxon sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG {amdahl|hpda}!bungia!datapg!sewilco Data Progress UNIX masts & rigging +1 612-825-2607 uunet!datapg!sewilco I'm just reversing entropy while waiting for the Big Crunch.