On 07Apr2024 18:23, Anton Sharonov <anton.sharo...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 09:23:07AM -0600, Charles Cazabon via Mutt-users wrote:
There's a good reason for that; it help to ensure uniqueness, which
prevents
problems with threading. By limiting itself to only digits, Yandex's IDs are
much more likely to collide.
Hm, not sure about that... Given that string is long enough,
random string which consists only out of digits can perhaps
compete with (much shorter) random string of alpha-numeric
characters - in terms of uniqueness probability?
It doesn't matter. The yandex people only need to ensure the uniqueness
of the stuff left of the "@" (because they're the owners of the stuff on
the right), and can do whatever is reliably unique for them.
Regardless, just using digits only means the string needs to be a bit
longer.
Mutt uses more characters because it lets you make the message-id a
shorter piece of text.
