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Re: [OT] RFC 822?



On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 17:13:29 -0600
"Gary Turner" <kk5st@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 15:21:03 -0600, Gerald V.Livingston II wrote:
> 
> snip
> 
> >3 to 6 characters using the alphabet only, no numerals, underscores,
> >or full-stops then we are looking at (3^26)+(4^26)+(5^26)+(6^26) or
> >172,076,350,440,456,172,706 messages in the queue. 
> 
> Uh, I think that's 26^3 + 26^4 + 26^5 + 26^6 = 321,271,704, which is
> still a big number.

Oops. That's what I get for working 48 hour straight shifts. I thought
those numbers looked awfully big for such a limited chosen span.

G



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