Subj : Re: dupe checking
To   : apam
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jul 11 2022 07:39 pm

  Re: Re: dupe checking
  By: apam to vorlon on Sat Jun 25 2022 05:50 pm

 > My theory was that many msgids are generated by unix time, some are poorly
 > implemented and may shoot of several different messages in a second, which
 > some other more robust dupe checkers would notice because they work off the
 > whole message not just message id, but postie did not.

I have a rant about that very subject here:
https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:misc#ftn_msgid

The FTN message-ID was just badly conceived and documented. Especially considering there was already a better concept well-documented in IETF's RFC-822.
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