> Listserv - unless it is able to _understand_ the contents of a mail -
> must quite often throw up its hands. It is better than trying to be
> smart and cause irritation and frustration. Listserv must let through
> even badly formatted messages with improper indentation, with bad
> grammar, with obviously false statements, wrongly placed commas,
> semicolons, etc.

There was never any discussion of endowing Listserv with artificial
intelligence. The issue is comparing identical messages with
different .sigs. The exact string of characters used in those
messages doesn't even have to be understandable to any specific human
being.

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                                        Joe Clark
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