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From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: : 32-char ID duplicates
Summary: Notes may be the culprit
Message-ID: <1555@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 89 19:53:01 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Organization: Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth
	(Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal)
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In article <24116@datapg.MN.ORG> sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) writes:

    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)

But all the other articles posted had some HP site in their path. Since
nobody has advanced this explanation, here is my stab in the dark:  the
culprit for the various truncations *may* be Notes. If you look at headers,
it seems that many HP sites internally uses Notes instead of C or B News.

What happens to the articles seems consistent with the logic of Notes.
If it turns out that Notes has a 32 byte limit for ids or headers or
whatever (I often see truncated subjects etc...), then this hypothesis
becomes less speculative...
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