From: Walter Alejandro Iglesias <wai@roquesor.com>
Subject: Re: Adding Message-ID to mail(1) portable version ;-)
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:36:23 +0200

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


-- 
Walter