From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Fri Jul 09 1999 - 03:33:49 CDT
Brad Templeton said:
>> So the injector renames them or something. As I said. So long as what's
>> outgoing contains the injector's audit headers, who cares ?
[...]
> What's important is that they refuse to pass through, unchanged, any
> audit headers.
Agreed.
>> Back to front. If they change the message-id, it is a new message.
> That begs the question. The whole point of the "don't allow the message-id
> to change" rule is to avoid having 2 messages that are otherwise identical
> but have different message-ids. In the days before we STOMPED on bad
> gateways and injecting, the net was full of duplicated messages.
Fine. We can continue to STOMP on bad gateways and injectors.
I see a distinct lack of justification for anyone changing the message ID
on a proto-message. I'm willing to be educated on this.
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