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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Checksum as a replacement for missing Message-ID.
Message-ID: <5290@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 16:30:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 16:30:06 1985
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Throwing away messages because they might have been seen before is a
poor idea. I can think of lots of cases where it is not what I want
done with my mail. For instance, if I send mail to someone and for
some reason they don't get it, or their disk crashes, and they ask me
to resend, I don't want any smart router to not send it because it
has been seen before. Likewise, if I always have a meeting on
Wednesday, and I always send myself mail on all the machines I
work on Tuesday night, saying ``meeting at 4, stop hacking at 3:30''
I want to keep getting those messages! The actual proposed use of
this ``feature'' (being on 2 lists where the same article is posted
twice) is another instance where I *especially* want to see both
articles. There are days I don't have time for large volume
newsgroups or mailing lists, and will axe all messages in that
group without reflection. However, something that was posted to both
a large volume list and a smaller one is likely to still be of
interest to me.

Are you sure that you really have a problem that you are trying to fix?

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura
ihnp4!utzoo!laura@seismo