Re: [ADMIN] Read me first!

Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:28:57 -0500 (CDT)

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# >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.

No, the messages aren't unique, the tranport framing of the messages is
unique. The Message-ID refers to an instantiation of a specific body
written and guaranteed as original by the host that generated the
Message-ID initially. Calling a message unique just because of the
RFC 822 SMTP Transport headers are different for each user is inaccurate.

# >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.

FWIW: I'm not sure just how large this list is but I've run 2000+ user
lists with majordomo and they do just what Steve described and they were
very easy to manage.

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