Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Ah, sorry, I wasn't precise enough, please let me explain. When > I wrote "prefix", I had its use by humans in mind, e.g. for searching > the "what's cooking" emails by hand, to see the statuses of one's > patches. I mean, that's what I do -- by searching for "ds/", I can > easily find the statuses of my patches in "what's cooking" emails. > Does that make sense? Yes, and the fan-out reduces the search space by a lot, but like the birthday paradox, given sufficiently large number of people, the chances of two people falling into the same shard increases. It of course does not help that the first and the last capital letters in people's names are not evenly distributed ;-).
