Subj : talking to myself To : Maurice Kinal From : Russell Tiedt Date : Sat Feb 19 2005 12:25 pm Hello Maurice. 17 Feb 05 10:11, you wrote to me: MK>>> Really? That many? That is far too much waste of bandwidth for MK>> MK>>> sure. RT>> Last batch that came in about 3 weeks ago was 296 msgs. :-( RT>> I agree a large waste of bandwidth ... :-((( MK> So with that in mind, how is the MSGID useful? Well I have seen origin lines and others "tampered" with by other systems, and in most cases the MSGID remained intact, so it showed the originating system, which was not reflected in the origin or elsewhere, tho if one was malicious, I suppose that could also be tampered with. Russell --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.4.7 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1) .