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Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> Ok.. lets start from the top, again. Why do we need uniqueness?

We want to count each host reporting *once* ... without uniqueness per 
host, how are you going to know whether to update a hosts record, instead 
of add it as a new host?

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