RE: No apologies if you receive this multiple times (was CFP: IEEE IC3N'2000) from Larry Masinter on 2000-05-02 (ietf-discuss@w3.org from May 2000)

From: Larry Masinter <LM@att.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 15:21:18 -0700
To: <moore@cs.utk.edu>, "Lawrence Greenfield" <leg+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: <discuss@apps.ietf.org>
Message-ID: <NDBBKEBDLFENBJCGFOIJEEAOCKAA.LM@att.com>

> so when a message gets received, the message-id is extracted,
> and a secure hash is made of the message (minus its received
> fields and anything else that seems extraneous).  if there
> was another message with that message-id and the same hash,
> the new message is ignored.  if there was another message
> with the same message-id but a different hash, the new message
> is treated as a separate message.

So forget the message-ID and just store the secure hash.

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