Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!mica.berkeley.edu!wisner From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: "Status" header Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 89 05:19:23 GMT References: <1322@uceng.UC.EDU> <15051@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: na Organization: Verrifast Plaine Co Ltd Lines: 17 In-reply-to: dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU's message of 29 Jun 89 04:26:02 GMT MH can be instructed to keep track of messages that have not been seen by putting them into an "unseen" sequence. It never touches the actual messages to do this. MH can also be instructed to keep track of when a message is replied, forwarded, or whatever. It does not use the utterly bogus and highly ugly Status: header. It inserts two header lines at the very top of the message (thus making them very easy to edit out) along the lines of: Replied: Tue, 27 Jun 89 12:59:17 PDT Replied: Martin Hanley (Look, Martin! Your name in lights!) Note that MH does none of these things unless explicitly told to. w