The (IMHO) excessively long tokens are causing considerable confusion on the lists I help run.
The problem is that any URL longer than 80 characters will be chopped by many mail clients- Eudora, for example. Let's be realistic- just 3 alphanumerics would allow for 46,656 unique IDs. 8 would allow for 2.8x10^12. Ie, a lot.
The current tokens are 40 characters long- that's 1.7x10^62 combinations.
So- consider this a combo bug report(URLs are so long they get munged because the token is half the word-wrap alone), and feature request. I think 4 characters would be plenty(1.6+ million combos). Not to mention, it makes it much less of a deal to have a clickable URL in the first place if the token's only 4 characters.
Brett -- ---- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin http://www.users.cloud9.net/~brett/
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