Hallo Wilfred!

 WvV> But how are you going to find out if that happens in some corner
 WvV> of fidonet.

I cannot.  The best I can do is to put the node back online which is served 
'locally' or another point(s) in different parts of the world and then see 
where they show up ... or not as the case might be.  When I did this in the 
past a number of messages did go missing but it had nothing to do with MSGID's 
... except in one case where there was no MSGID and it didn't go missing but 
created a bunch of actual dupes to be spit out of questionable setups.  That is 
why I always put a MSGID in my messages.

 WvV> You can hardley check every node in fidonet...

Nor am I planning to.  I am satisfied that if nothing else at least it found 
it's way back to BC despite the wrong date(s) and a non-compliant MSGID that 
actually contains very useful information beyond just being unique.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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