Re: [ga] Proposals received for Nominations for the election of a Chair to the GA

["Mark C. Langston" <skritch@home.com>]

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.

-- 
Mark C. Langston
mark@bitshift.org
Systems Admin
San Jose, CA