Subj : Re: May the Guilty Party Please Rise
To   : David Calafrancesco
From : Michael Grant
Date : Sun Apr 29 2001 06:47 am

DC>  MG> Dale Ross and DavidC say they have a problem with messages with no
DC>  MG> MSGID, because a PX system who's a downlink of Dale's regurgitates
DC>  MG> those messages with /his/ system's node number in the MSGID.
DC>  MG> Meanwhile the vast majority of systems can pass messages with no
DC>  MG> MSGID without doing this.  
DC> 
DC> The correct path is 273/416 2604/104 140/1. It is specifically not a downl
DC> of Dale's or else nobody else in the zone would be seeing the problems as 
DC> is conscientious enough to clean the regurgitated traffic from the stream.
DC> Would that 273/416 or he two nodes between it and the backbone would do th
DC> same. 

The whole point was, you're blaming the messages, when it's not the messages
that are at fault, but a sysop's mis-configuration. 

Given what you post Dale would do, "cleaning" those messages from the mail,
how can you be absolutely certain something else that might be a legitimate
message won't get "cleaned" along with them?

The Soviet Union used to "clean" it's mail once, too...

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