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From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: overuse of Received: headers
Message-ID: <900@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: Sun, 19-Apr-87 09:26:56 EST
Article-I.D.: maynard.900
Posted: Sun Apr 19 09:26:56 1987
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Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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Summary: please keep them in

I also would like to keep the "Received:" headers.  Mail to us is often
delayed, and it's useful to know where the holdup is.  As a concrete
example, we discovered through analysis of "Received:" headers that most
of our recent delays were caused by queuing at our immediate neighbor,
wjh12.  That is, a message might take an hour to make the five or six
hops to wjh12, and then two days to make the last hop here.  As a result,
we increased our polling frequency and switched from a normal news feed
to a compressed batched feed (wjh12 also feeds us news).  This solved
the mail problem.  But we would not have understood the problem nearly
as well without the "Received:" headers.

Please retain the "Received:" headers.
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Internet: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM          120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
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