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|    Maurice Kinal to Wilfred van Velzen    |
|    ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell    |
|    01 Apr 19 17:40:58    |
      MSGID: 2:280/464.113 5ca24d2a       REPLY: 2:280/464 5ca24736       Hallo Wilfred!               WvV> But how are you going to find out if that happens in some corner        WvV> of fidonet.              I cannot. The best I can do is to put the node back online which is served       'locally' or another point(s) in different parts of the world and then see       where they show up ... or not as the case might be. When I did this in the       past a number of messages did go missing but it had nothing to do with MSGID's       ... except in one case where there was no MSGID and it didn't go missing but       created a bunch of actual dupes to be spit out of questionable setups. That       is why I always put a MSGID in my messages.               WvV> You can hardley check every node in fidonet...              Nor am I planning to. I am satisfied that if nothing else at least it found       it's way back to BC despite the wrong date(s) and a non-compliant MSGID that       actually contains very useful information beyond just being unique.              Het leven is goed,       Maurice              ... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.       --- GNU bash, version 5.0.3(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)        * Origin: Little Mikey's EuroPoint - Ladysmith BC, Canada (2:280/464.113)       SEEN-BY: 15/2 18/200 123/1970 154/10 203/0 221/0 226/17 229/107 354       SEEN-BY: 229/426 452 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 310/31       SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 393/68 396/45 423/120 633/280 770/1       PATH: 280/464 229/426           |
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