From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 11 1999 - 06:10:20 CDT
In <19991007110431.S8344@demon.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> writes:
>Charles Lindsey said:
>> I see no benefit in keeping any of the early ones, except the first.
>If somebody hasn't received the first, having another early one might help
>link the threads.
>> Trimming SHOULD be done by removing any incomplete or otherwise broken
>> message identifiers, and then sufficient identifiers starting with the
>> second so as to bring the total down to 21.
>What about:
> and then sufficient identifiers so as to bring the total down to 21.
> Agents SHOULD keep the first 1 and last 9 identifiers, and in the
> absence of any obvious candidates MAY wish to remove starting from
> the second identifier.
Well I am not convinced of that, so please can we have some more opinions?
In fact, I would even be happy to simplify the present text by omitting
the "incomplete or broken" bit altogether.
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