A while ago I pointed out that the now-defunct Listmanager software
had the capacity to enumerate reflector and digest messages
separately:

[LGBS 1047]

[LGB-Sports Digest 201]

so that subscribers could be absolutely sure they were getting every
message. It also makes things much easier to diagnose a reflector
problem: Listserv can and will enumerate digests, but not reflector
messages.

One of my lists is having exactly the sort of hard-to-trace problem
of disappearing reflector messages that this enumeration feature
would make very easy to diagnose. If the subscriber receives [Icebike
2199] and [Icebike 2202], and everything before and after those,
respectively, then guess what? we know that 2200 and 2201 are the
culprits.

Will Lsoft *please* add this *very* simple feature?

Presumably one could even add it as an X- header:

X-LISTNAME-Serial-Number: 2199

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