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by wizzwizz4 2401 days ago
Hash collisions most likely.
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ta999999171 2401 days ago
Have heard this so many times about Gmail...

How have they not resolved this?

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joncrane 2401 days ago
I think it's like EC2 instance IDs. When they first came up with it, they never thought there would be literally billions of unique email addresses/EC2 instances eventually.
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