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1997-10-20 13:02:25
I recently noticed these, full headers included. I have taken the
liberty of replacing all instances of the user name with "a-pox",
all instances of the host.tld with "on.ms" and various portions of
the user's full name with "broken software user", in an effort to
protect the identity of this individual.

Return-Path: <on.ms!a-pox>
Received:  by Mail.NetUSA.Net (Linux Smail3.2.0.97 #25)
          id m0xCoqD-001vsxC; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 12:26:37 -0400 (EDT)
Received:  from hades.on.ms (209.16.220.11) by Mail.NetUSA.Net with esmtp
          (Linux Smail3.2.0.97 #25) id m0xCoqC-001vswC; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 
12:26:36 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from unknown ([10.2.1.59]) by hades.on.ms
          (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 108-33471U20000) with SMTP
          id AAA9373 for 
<story-pages(_at_)qz(_dot_)little-neck(_dot_)ny(_dot_)us>;
          Sun, 21 Sep 1997 11:26:38 -0500
Message-ID: 
<MAPI(_dot_)Id(_dot_)0016(_dot_)00726170657220203030303630303036(_at_)MAPI(_dot_)to(_dot_)RFC822>
Read-Receipt-To: "user" <a-pox(_at_)on(_dot_)ms>
Priority: Normal
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Priority: 3
To: story-pages(_at_)qz(_dot_)little-neck(_dot_)ny(_dot_)us
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: a-pox(_at_)on(_dot_)ms (broken software user)
Subject: RE: weekly ass archives 
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 97 11:25:52 PDT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT"

Return-Path: <on.ms!a-pox>
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          id m2HAr0d-001vx8C; Thu, 7 Feb 2036 21:27:07 -0500 (EST)
Received:  from hermes.on.ms (209.16.220.10) by Mail.NetUSA.Net with esmtp
          (Linux Smail3.2.0.97 #25) id m2HAr0b-001vx7C; Thu, 7 Feb 2036 
21:27:05 -0500 (EST)
Received: from PC_a-poxon.ms ([10.2.1.27]) by hermes.on.ms
          (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 108-33471U20000) with SMTP
          id AAA13900 for 
<story-pages(_at_)qz(_dot_)little-neck(_dot_)ny(_dot_)us>;
          Sun, 19 Oct 1997 18:49:16 -0500
Message-ID: 
<MAPI(_dot_)Id(_dot_)0016(_dot_)00726170657220203030303630303036(_at_)MAPI(_dot_)to(_dot_)RFC822>
Read-Receipt-To: "broken software user" <a-pox(_at_)on(_dot_)ms>
Priority: Normal
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Priority: 3
To: story-pages(_at_)qz(_dot_)little-neck(_dot_)ny(_dot_)us
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: a-pox(_at_)on(_dot_)ms (broken software user)
Subject: help
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 97 18:51:28 PDT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Return-Path: <on.ms!a-poxon.ms>
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Received: from PC_a-poxon.ms ([10.2.1.60]) by hermes.on.ms
          (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 108-33471U20000) with SMTP
          id AAA7746 for 
<story-pages(_at_)qz(_dot_)little-neck(_dot_)ny(_dot_)us>;
          Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:13:47 -0500
Message-ID: 
<MAPI(_dot_)Id(_dot_)0016(_dot_)00726170657220203030303630303036(_at_)MAPI(_dot_)to(_dot_)RFC822>
Read-Receipt-To: "broken software user" <a-poxon.ms>
Priority: Normal
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Priority: 3
To: story-pages(_at_)qz(_dot_)little-neck(_dot_)ny(_dot_)us
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: "broken software user" <a-poxon.ms>
Subject: What Gives ?
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 97 11:36:55 PDT
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Notice that all three of them *have the same message ID*. Notice, too,
that they are clearly *not the same message*. Finally you may observe
that the third one has a completely broken email address.

What piece of shit microsoft program is producing these? I am half
tempted bounce all mail with a domain name of "MAPI.to.RFC822" as
the hostname with a explaination of "invalid message ID". I get far
too much mail to want to build workarounds for message ID duplicate
testing to handle this junk.

Elijah
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I /dev/null dupes, no need to CC list posts.  It is not my responsibility to
prove to you my mail is not spam, if mail to you bounces it will not be resent.

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