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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.news.sa
Subject: Re: phoney addresses, can they be tracked?
Message-ID: <6567@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Apr-86 19:09:04 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  5 19:09:04 1986
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Keywords: bloated headers, phone bills

> Our mailer puts "Received" stamps on according to where the mail actually
> came from. ... All you would then have to do is see where the discrepancy
> is... It is my firm belief that all mailers should do this for this reason
> (this conforms to RFC822).

Unfortunately, we are talking about news, not mailers.  And news article
headers are already bloated.  If your site gets a full feed, a substantial
fraction of the disk space needed to store news is storing largely-redundant
headers.  Similarly, sites which get news via Long Distance are paying a
noticeable fraction of their phone bills for headers.  Considering the
convoluted paths that news articles sometimes take, adding a "Received"	
header for every hop would greatly worsen these problems.  Even for mail,
those headers are making much money for phone companies; for news it's just
impractical.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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