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From: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mail headers
Message-ID: <627@dtscp1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 89 18:47:51 GMT
References: <5463@ozdaltx.UUCP> <11470@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Organization: Digital Transmission Systems (a subsidiary of DCA), Duluth, GA
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In article <11470@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
>If you don't want to see certain headers then use a mail reader
>which doesn't *show* you those headers!  Mush is a perfectly good
>example of such a mail reader.
>
>But *do* *not* suggest that we take away the Received: headers!

Why?  Someone please explain to me what purpose do they serve besides making
it more difficult to get to the real mail at the end.  I am more interested
in the message not what software, version number, or even system the note
passed through to get here.

Just a thought:
Are all these header lines needed because we have so many brain-dead
machines running brain-damaged software?  I would figure by now most of
the net-bugs have been ironed out and mail does pass pretty reliably
to make these things unnecessary.  Being only a five-year net veteran
I have not had too many problems with mail.

Yes, I agree that this sounds a bit naive; but why do we have to put up
with transmitting this extra data all over the net when it seems to have
out lived its usefulness?

-- 
scott barman
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