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From: ken@rochester.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: mail problems
Message-ID: <25288@rochester.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 03:21:45 EST
Article-I.D.: rocheste.25288
Posted: Thu Feb 26 03:21:45 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Feb-87 01:24:09 EST
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Reply-To: ken@rochester.UUCP (SKY)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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|How easy it is to become acustomed to this annoyance!  Is there an RFC out
|there somewhere which states that each site which handles a mail message
|MUST put this crap in?  Right now my mailbox has 3 messages in it, 120
|lines total.  Of this, there are 12 lines of 'real' information, that is,
|the stuff actually written by the authors!  The first message has 23 lines
|of Received: stuff, 4 >From/>From:/From lines, and 4 lines of 'text'.  Most
|of this mail message doesn't really matter to me.  Sure, if I'm having
|troubles getting mail to/from somewhere these lines help pinpoint mailer
|fubars, but this trace info should be the EXCEPTION, not the RULE.

I don't know what mail interface you are using, but both Mail and MH
allow such headers to be supressed in the display.  I never see these
lines unless I read the raw mail file.  Ask a mail guru how to set up
your mail environment.

	Ken