- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 19:46:46 -0400
- To: "Larry Masinter" <LM@att.com>
- cc: moore@cs.utk.edu, "Lawrence Greenfield" <leg+@andrew.cmu.edu>, discuss@apps.ietf.org
> > 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. yep, if you're going to just compare hashes then you might as well forget the message-ID altogether. the message-id could still be useful if you want to compare the message using other means, or to point out to a human "hey, we've got these two messages with the same message-id". Keith
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