Re: No apologies if you receive this multiple times (was CFP: IEEE IC3N'2000)

> Carnegie Mellon's legacy e-mail system has been eliminating duplicates
> based on message-id alone (well, with recepient envelope address) for
> many years (circa 1985?), and our new system, the Cyrus IMAP server,
> also does it.  We never get any user complaints except when it doesn't
> work.

Well, all I can say is that I know quite a few people who have been involved in
the CMU mail system's design and implementation, and several of them have told
me of quite a few problems and considerable user dissatisfaction with this
"feature".

				Ned

Received on Tuesday, 2 May 2000 17:28:04 UTC