Re: [ga] Proposals received for Nominations for the election of

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

On 21-Nov-99 Mark C. Langston wrote:
> 
> On 20 November 1999, d3nnis <d3nnis@mciworld.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dear DNSO Secretariat --
>>
>>You said, in essence " We told you on Sep. 19 that you have a problem at
>>your 
>>end with multiple
>>message id's that prevent you from posting."
>>
>>You neglected to mention that I reported to your that my ISP (MCI) shot
>>that e
>>xplanation down. They
>>have only one ID -- and the problem is at your end.
> 
> 
> Errr..actually, Dennis, what she said was that your mailer software's
> broken.  Your mailer software is *supposed* to generate uniqe
> Message-ID:
> headers for every message you send.  Instead, it's generating the *same*
> Message-ID: header for every message you send.
> 
> The archiving software they use, MHOnArc, correctly uses that header to
> prune the archives and save space, because there's no reason to assume
> multiple unique messages would have identical Message-ID: headers.  But
> yours do, and the archiving software ignores it.
> 
> It's not a problem with MHOnArc, it's a problem with your mailer
> software.
> That's broken behavior.
> 

And also, just to clarify, its not your internet provider either.  The
only way to solve it is to change the email software you use personally.

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William X. Walsh - DSo Internet Services
Email: william@dso.net  Fax:(209) 671-7934