Subj : Re: SBBS MSGID
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Mar 02 2023 13:31:33

  Re: Re: SBBS MSGID
  By: Wilfred van Velzen to Chad Adams on Thu Mar 02 2023 09:43 pm

 > Hi Chad,
 >
 > On 2023-03-02 12:26:54, you wrote to Digital Man:
 >
 >  CA> Thank you! I agree with your article and was actually wondering how
 >  CA> the MSGID 8 Char serial could even be assured to be unique with all of
 >  CA> the echomail floating around.
 >
 > To be precise: The combination of the 8 char serialno _plus_ the origaddr
 > need to be unique! So since the originating system is in control of
 > generating it, uniqueness can be assured!

That's how the spec *should* have been written, but alas, it was not:

    "The serial number may be any eight
     character hexadecimal number,  as long as it is unique - no two
     messages from a given system may have the same serial number
     within a three years." FTS-9
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