uucp seqno wrapping

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From: utzoohenry
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1982 20:27

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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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Subject: uucp seqno wrapping
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1982 20:27:44 +0000
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