Text 15316, 27 rader
Skriven 2011-07-19 14:31:26 av Markus Reschke (2:244/1661)
  Kommentar till text 15311 av Scott Little (3:712/848)
Ärende: for the record
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Hello Scott!

Jul 19 15:50 11, Scott Little wrote to Markus Reschke:

 SL> You missed the part where Maurice wants to create MSGIDs based on the 
 SL> CRC of his messages (he wrote a Bash/vim based mail reader).  That 
 SL> just makes MSGID redundant information, as the CRC can be generated 
 SL> at any time.  MSGIDs are supposed to be unique to the originating 
 SL> system (the fact that it's generally implemented badly doesn't change 
 SL> its purpose).

That's right! Using MSGIDs for dupe checking implies that the MSGID is some
kind of unique value. CRCs are not unique. Since nearly all programs use the
local time for that purpose we should keep it that way.

 SL> He also likes the idea that CRC based dupe checking can filter out 
 SL> monthly posts, unlike MSGIDs.  He can do that if he wants, but it's 
 SL> entirely independent of his own MSGID creation algorithm, or the 
 SL> MSGIDs created by the rest of Fidonet.

I think a MD5 hash would be better suited.

Regards,
Markus

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