On 13-04-2001 at 17:51, Pete P kindly wrote:
> Hello Karin,
KS>> Have you tried to browse that particular folder for deleted
KS>> messages? You might be able to salvage them that way...
> Well, I've got most of them back with the list-moderator's help so
> this is not as disasterous (is that a real word?!) as it first seemed.
"disastrous" is the correct word ;-)
>>> Now it seems to me that the message-ID isn't a very
>>> reliable way to determine which messages are duplicates...
KS>> It is the only reliable way. But there is no way that TB can
KS>> foresee that somebody will, agains all RFCs, start using the
KS>> same message-ID over and over again...
> Which leads me to a question: how *is* it possible to have same
> message-ID on several messages?! I'm dumbstruck!
Somebody on this list - I think it was sev - set all his
mail to have the same message-ID too, until he was warned of
the consequences. Sev, can you explain how you did it?
- K -
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