9/16    A Modest Proposal: One of the threads below shows how confusing it is
        to have several anonymous posts on the same thread, with some but not
        others by the same author. So, to make life easier, if you feel like
        posting anonymously but will probably post again on the same thread
        and want people to know your posts are by the same person, just pick
        an arbitrary 32-bit int "sig" and use it to sign your posts on that
        thread. Then feel free to change your "sig" whenever. -0x1337D00D
        \_ What's with the 5+ line posts? Is it a concerted effort to render
           the motd useless?
        \_ Who is number 0x1?
           \_ You are number 0x6.
              \_ I AM NOT A NUMBER!  I AM A FREE MAN!
        \_ Wow, yeah... but are you sure 32 bits are enough!?  --foo
           \- i wonder what would happen if some number of people pledged
           to "join" the Brotherhood [And Sisterhood] To Indiscriminantly And
           Rapidly Delete Anonymous Motd Posts Regardless Of Content ...
           it might crowd out anon posts, but i suppose it is also possible
           it will lead to RCS madness. ok tnx. --psb
           \_ [post deleted as part of the 'Brotherhood (And Sisterhood) To
               Indiscriminantly And Rapidly Delete psb Motd Posts Regardless
               Of Content'. ok tnx.] (not to mention bad formatting)
                                            - 0xanonymouse
           \_ Soda has less than 4G accounts so far.
              \_ We need to plan for the future, though!  What if some of
                 these posts are still around when it has more than that?
                 Huh?  Did you think of that?  --0xDEAD1337CAFED00D
                 \_ No. We need to plan far ahead like IPv6. Just in case
                    there are 4000 CSUA posters per square foot of land
                    on earth. We need 128-bit signatures.
                    -0x49193631abedf0001242efacc012
        \_ You just need a unique id per thread. we don't need to track across
           threads. So the poster posts with id 0. the first to respond uses
           id 1, and so forth. if you post twice on a current thread, use the
           same id. the motd lock acts as a mutex so you don't need to worry
           about thread safety.
           about thread safety. -0x1