On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 16:27 -0600, Claude Jones wrote: > when my own message gets back to gmail, it knows somehow, that it's > the same message I sent 'through' before I don't know about gmail's workings, but other systems might do that sort of trick by checking the unique message IDs in each posts. If an incoming message's matches a sent message's, it's supposedly the same message. Usenet clients can use that technique to not double up on your own messages in its database. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.