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"Robert J. Brown" (rj@ELI.WARIAT.ORG)
Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:40:11 -0500


>>>>> "Tyler" == Tyler Nally <tnally@csci.csc.com> writes:

    >>  I sent several last night.FRI NIGHt and they never where
    >> posted.
    >> 
    >> Are you back on the job at this late hour. 11pm central

    Tyler> Nope, just now.... (11 am central, Monday)

    Tyler> Did you ever see the posts you posted to H-F?

    Tyler> If you didn't the possibility exists that your post had a
    Tyler> "checksum" matching a previously posted message.  All you'd
    Tyler> need to do is re-post it with a little of the text changed
    Tyler> so that it doesn't have the same checksum as before.

Is there anyway you can send mail back to the originator warning him
that a message was rejected due to matching checksum?  Yhis is really
a dumb way to check for multipath postings, since it seems to happen
so often.  There ought to be a lifetime on the checksum test, and if
the message is over 5 days old, then recycle the checksum associated
with it.  

This and the problems with burping...  I am having less and less
respect for the mail server at prairienet.org

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