Barry A. Warsaw added the comment:

On May 19, 2015, at 07:23 AM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

>Now there is a question. Is it worth to use base16 (hexadecimal) to compact
>message id to 34 characters or base32 to compact it to 27 characters? Using
>base16 is pretty easy: just replace %d with %x. Using base32 is more
>complicated.

It might not be relevant, but we're using base 32 in Message-ID-Hash:

http://wiki.list.org/DEV/Stable%20URLs

We settled on base 32 after consulting with the curators of mail-archive.com
and others.

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