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From: rob@violet.berkeley.edu (Rob Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mail headers
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Date: 2 Apr 89 04:49:52 GMT
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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.

besides being a very good debugging tool in determining where 
a mail message actually went, they also prevent intermachine 
mail loops, ie .forward files on different machines pointing 
at each other.  i've seen this make an 8600 totally unusable.

rob