Subj : Re: SBBS MSGID
To   : Chad Adams
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Mar 02 2023 11:07:04

  Re: Re: SBBS MSGID
  By: Chad Adams to Digital Man on Thu Mar 02 2023 12:26 pm

 > MSGID: 1:19/40 182A4278
 > PID: CyberBBS v1.0.10
 > Thank you! I agree with your article and was actually wondering how
 > the MSGID 8 Char serial could even be assured to be unique with all of
 > the echomail floating around.

Well it's even more limited than "8 Char": it's 8 *hexadecimal* chars. FTS-9 is just a pretty bad idea, especially considering that RFC 822 had a much better/vetted Message-ID solution, was publicly availble for anyone to read/use, and existed 9 years before FTS-9 was published.
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