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On 27 Feb 2001, Jason R. Mastaler wrote:

> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> 
>> Nothing guarantees that another client won't generate the same lhs
>> using a different algorithm.
> 
> By another "client", do you mean a piece of software other than
> gnus?

Yes.  Please note that, amongst the people using an @hotmail.com mail
address (say), there will be many different clients.

If, however, you include the hostname in the rhs of a message id, then
the probability of a clash goes down, since on the same host not so
many different user agents will be used.

kai
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