On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:52:54AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> That's not so bad, really. You make a script to run through all the
> ids, hash them, and store them in a handy file. Then when you want to
> "decode" the hash, just do a "reverse-lookup" in your handy file. You
> only need to hash the list of all ids once and save the result for
> later usage.
*bzzzzzzt*
the suggested version included the messageid. This is vaguely sensible,
depending on whether you care about the usernames or just the correlation
of usernames. (otherwise the hash becomes something which is not quite
username-equivalent, but can be used for tracking. This may or may not
be important).
MBM
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