Re: Happy 0v0000 day!

On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Chris Thompson wrote:

> Just why do smail and exim use base 62 numbers in message ids, anyway?

Smail does it to keep its file names down to 14 characters, I believe.
Exim does it to keep a cultural link with Smail.

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