Subj : message-id
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Scott Little
Date : Fri Nov 08 2002 08:04 am

[ 06 Nov 02 18:52, Jasen Betts wrote to andrew clarke ]

JB> That was another idea I toyed with, making the serial number engine
JB> pluggable... where the editor (etc) rouns an external prog to generate
JB> the serial number.

Or a library.

ac>> Although I still think a random number generator seeded with the
ac>> year + month + day + hour + minute + second + subsecond would do
ac>> a pretty reasonable job if the string to be generated was
ac>> long enough.  I guess I should do some tests
JB> yeah, but no better than just using the year + month + day + hour +
JB> minute + second + subsecond

It's better but still not guaranteed.  rand() would have to return the same
number twice in the same millisecond for this method to fail.

JB> So converters will be needed for people with old software who want to
JB> see threads, or will both MSGID always be present in messages with
JB> with a message-id

I suppose the message-id could form the domain of the origaddr part of the old
msgid, since that will still allow most mail readers to extract Z:N/F as long
as they don't barf on the length...


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