Nick R on Thu, 4 Nov 1999 00:23:15 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Plug] Red Hat is Coming!


So then you'd lose a little time comparing a few duplicate headers.


From: "Michael W. Ryan" <mryan@netaxs.com>
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Subject: Re: [Plug] Red Hat is Coming!
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:27:30 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Nick R wrote:

> Maybe there should be a filter or something for this list that keeps out
> duplicates. It wouldn't need to check every message in full, just compare
> subjects of messages not beginning w/ Re: in the past week or so and then
> compare the bodies against each other if the headers match.


Not a good idea.  Not everyone's mail client always adds on the "RE:".

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