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Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
Subject:
Re: Adding Message-ID to mail(1) portable version ;-)
To:
Walter Alejandro Iglesias <wai@roquesor.com>
Cc:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:25:34 +0200

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Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote in
 <ZsbcZ_42h6xQdqih@chancha.roquesor.com>:

But you do it.

 |On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 09:49:16PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |> Sven M. Hallberg wrote in
 |>  <87ikvu9rgm.fsf@unruhe.p.khjk.org>:

As he does.
But "Unruhe" is a nice German word, thus.

 |>|Claus Assmann on Wed, Aug 21 2024:
 |>|> So if two people on the same system send a message within the
 |>|> same seccond they get the same Message-ID?
 |>|
 |>|Yeah. Just pick 16 bytes (128 bits) of randomness, print them in hex,
 |>|and be done with it. Anything else is needlessly fanciful.
 |> 
 |> One of the terrible changes in email practice as i see it.
 |> I love to see date and time therein.
 |> I think these 80 or what byte randoms that Gmail and such use are
 |> totally brain dead and inhuman (to the eye), i see no value, there
 |> is nothing "to reveal", but a lot to loose (imho).
 |
 |I agree with this.  Besides of inhuman that's what I see as "needlessly
 |fanciful".  I make mistakes like everyone else, especially with this
 |since I'm learning, but doing unnecessary or fanciful things, no, that's
 |not me.  Life experience taught me that the best way to be original is
 |not to try to be original, so my first idea was taken from a wikipedia
 |article. :-)
 |
 |Anyway, even when what Claus says is not easy to acomplish he has a

*He* seems to use mutt and that has a date and time (by default).

 |point.

Stir it up!

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)