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Autzoo.1251 net.bugs.v7 utzoo!henry Mon Jan 4 20:27:44 1982 uucp seqno wrapping A few months ago I described a serious problem in uucp: its four-digit sequence number can wrap around in a few days on a busy system, which leads to all kinds of ungood things for sites which infrequently poll a busy site. A possible minimum-effort solution has occurred to me: anybody have any idea how hard it would be to mung uucp to use a larger alphabet than just [0-9] for its sequence numbers? For example, if the alphabet was [0-9a-z], this would change decvax's current wraparound time of 3 days to roughly a year: much more reasonable. A quick glance at the code suggests it's not trivial but not hard; any uucp hackers care to comment? I seem to recall at least one site was working on an improved uucp -- how about incorporating this in your efforts?

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