I cannot imagine a human user tracking the message
counts for every person he sends messages to, or from whom he receives
messages.
I tried this a while ago, several times in fact, when I was communicating
regularly with someone who had only a flaky UUCP connection. The attempt
failed, miserably. So, you're right.
However, I assume a mail program could generate and track sequence numbers.
In fact, I would have welcomed such assistance back in those bad old days.
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That said, I hope no such effort is considered for PEM. The last thing
I'd like to see is a delay in the GA release of PEM. So, I even hesitate
entering into a PEM debate.
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