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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> 
> > If the local-part includes a reasonable amount of entropy, the
> > probability of a Message-ID collision is negligible (compared to, say,
> > the whole universe vanishing in a quantum fluctuation).
> 
> This is the strategy Forte Agent uses.
> 
> However, given that there is no standard algorithm for generating the
> LHS, and thus no guarantee that the algorithm contains a sufficient
> amount of entropy,

As long as the Gnus algorithm provides enough entropy, message IDs
generated by Gnus will not cause collisions.