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From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Changes in messages and changes in Message-ID

> To fully resolve this problem, Usenet News and other mailers
> which use duplicate supression should not stop redistribution of a
> message to additional newsgroups. The loop control should only stop
> redistribution to the newsgroups which have already got the message.

This (1) does not ``fully resolve the problem'' and (2) will never be
implemented in USENET.

Reliable mail-to-news gateways have no choice but to generate new
Message-IDs.

---Dan
Put an end to fake mailing list subscriptions. http://pobox.com/~djb/ezmlm.html