>Josh, I'm afraid you're going to have to concede defeat on this
>one.
...
> there's
>just no possible statement you can make on the subject of message
>body rewriting that people here are going to find acceptable
>other than "message body rewriting has been turned off."
OK, I'm wrong.
>I'm sorry that people (myself included, in my first paragraph)
>have been picking on you for the faults of a piece of software
>you didn't write, and I thank you for remaining civil and not
>taking it personally. I hope you can laugh (as I am) about the
>whole issue (and especially the mystical substitutions);
>it's all really quite funny.
Believe it or not, this isn't the first time I've been in this position. :)
Thanks for the considerate comments. Its good to step back every once in a
while and remember that all of us are trying to make the faq-maintainers
list better... no one is trying to spoil it for everyone else like it may
sometimes feel.
>In other
>words, once we have the new list software configured the way we
>want, all copies of a particular message sent out will be
>identical, after all, so there's no reason they can't all use the
>same message-id.
The headers are also very different for each person, so even though we're
not modifying the body at all anymore, the messages themselves are still
unique.
>why not just scan all messages on their way
>to the list for strings of the form "please remove me", and
>divert them for manual processing?
That works great for small lists, but can get unmanageable for large ones.
~Josh
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