Re: my 2 cents worth

Ian Duncan <id@cc.mcgill.ca> Tue, 07 June 1994 23:37 UTC

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On Tue, 7 Jun 1994, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
> I also see no advantage to encoding the uid's in base64.  I would see
> an advantage to limiting their length, but on the other hand it is
> useful for servers to be able to use the contents of the Message-ID:
> header when it is assured such a header will exist.

Perhaps you're right. My suggestion started from wanting a very compact
value that could be carried in the LIST result. A subject for another 
day. 

I do think, for the sake of client writers, some care in making it easy to
manipulate is worthwhile. All a server ever needs to do is keep it unique
and spit them out when requested. For it to be useful on a client they
need to be managed in some sort of efficiently searchable form. 

   ...   ian   <id@cc.mcgill.ca>
Ian Duncan  ---  McGill University Computing Centre  ---  +.514.398.3710