From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Tue May 04 1999 - 06:34:33 CDT
"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> writes:
> Charles Lindsey said:
> > Articles with the same message ID are treated as identical
> > copies of the same article even if they are not in fact identical.
>
> How about:
>
> Articles with the same message ID are treated as interchangable
> versions of the same article.
>
> ?
I like the first better. The second would lead the reader to believe
that you can in fact change an article and keep the message-ID, but
you can't. The first makes it decently clear that if two different
articles happens to get the same message-ID, they are in fact
clobbering each other.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se A camel is a trotting horse that has been constructed by a committee.