RS> Squish systems can be set to dupe check on MSGID too.

BG> In fact, Squish 1.10 can be *told* to check dupes using MSGID,
BG> Header, or both, but due to an acknowledged bug, regardless of what
BG> you tell it, Squish will always check dupes by MSGID regardless (i.e.
BG> it can't be turned off, unless dupe checking is disabled completely).

Yeah, I realised that and saw the announcement of it quite some time
ago now.

BG> However, despite this bug, in the 3 months I've been using 1.10, it
BG> has *never* falsely detected a dupe here.

Yeah, Paul has had a brain fart on this one. Yes its possible to have the
To: From: Date: and Subject: fields identical, BUT you also have to have
the Time field identical too to have a problem. Even when the message is
coming from a QWK system which has no seconds field, the chances are
pretty remote. Possible, coz you can get that if you proof read the mail,
you can edit two in the same minute, but remote. And the 2 second
increment in the early PQWKs is good protection against that. THEN the
only thing which will bite you is proof reading those two messages and
changing them BOTH in the SAME minute, and they must ALSO be PRECISELY 30
messages apart in the REP too. Very very unlikely.

Your test isnt actually that conclusive coz by definition the vast bulk of
false dupes would have got dropped before they got to you.

BG> Therefore, I can see no valid reason for Paul not to be generating
BG> MSGIDs in his software. None at all.

Just a fundamentally extremist and fascist state of mind |-)

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