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From: tsmith@sem.BRL.MIL (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mail headers
Message-ID: <744@sem.BRL.MIL>
Date: 1 Apr 89 16:33:06 GMT
References: <5463@ozdaltx.UUCP>
Reply-To: tsmith@brl.arpa (Tim Smith (SECAD) <tsmith>)
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5463@ozdaltx.UUCP> root@ozdaltx.UUCP (root) writes:
>Wouldn't it be wonderful to receive e-mail WITHOUT scads of
>notations of 'Received by:' at the beginning of each
>message?  Does anyone really care what system received the
>message, that systems ID number and a time stamp to boot?  I
>can tell what sites the message went through by looking at
>the path line plus I can read the date the message was sent
>and I know when I received it.
>
>Not to mention the bytes saved in transmission by
>eliminating all this garbage.  What can be done????

The received by lines are often times the only way to debug things. 
Lots of email does not have a "path"- all the world is not usenet. If
you don't like looking at the receive lines find a decent mail reader-
mine strips all of the received by lines when it prints the mail on my
screen.

The bytes are cheap- it would cost me more of my time to debug mail
problems without the received by lines. 

	Tim Smith	(formerly of the US Naval Academy)
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