Re: Resending

[davidk@lysator.liu.se (David K}gedal)]

dreschs@mpd.tandem.com (Sten Drescher) writes:

>	Resent-Message-ID is in RFC 822 as a reference field, and it is
>a Good Thing - for example, I use procmail/formail to save 10KB of
>Message-IDs, and drop duplicates.  The main use for this is in mailing
>lists - like right now.  If you drop duplicates, you will see this once.
>If you don't, you'll see it twice - once from me, and once from the
>list. If you bounce a message to me, without alteration, I'd want it to
>be dropped if I've already received it elsewhere.

Yes, I use Gnus to read this, so I only have to see it once, but
aren't you talking about Message-ID? Where does Resent-Message-ID come
into all this?

>Also, Resent-Sender
>is also in the RFC as an originator field, although discouraged then it
>matches Resent-From (which it would usually be in this case).

Well, I think that Gnus should at least hide this header, as it does
for Sender.

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