Re: Duplicates

A.R. & F.L. Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@peak.org)
Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:29:24 -0800

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In article <xYYiyku1dWdR092yn@445sa>, ten.eerfrot@445sa (0) wrote:
<snip>
>I have been informed (in great detail!) via email of the many circumstances
>in which the Message-ID could be changed on duplicate messages -- so yarn
>woudln't recognise them as Dupes. I demure... it could happen. Hasn't
>happened to me, but could happen.
>
>I suggested Yarn forget about Message-ID's and do an MD5 hash of the body
>of each message coming in and judge dupes that way. <-: And on your pentium
>pro you won't notice the slow down. Heh.

Not as easy as it sounds. Yarn lives and breathes Message-IDs.
And are you suggesting all messages with a duplicate body are identical?
Some parts of the header are pretty crucial too...

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