Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!qiclab!leonard
From: leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mail headers
Message-ID: <2163@qiclab.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 07:24:07 GMT
References: <248.244422A4@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <636@dtscp1.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Qic Laboratories, Portland, Oregon.
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In article <636@dtscp1.UUCP> scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes:
<In article <248.244422A4@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
<>The Received: headers come in VERY handy when your mail hasn't gotten from
<>point A to point B, and you'd like to know why.  They're often useful
<>in discovering sites that do "active" rerouting (and thus enabling you
<>to route around them if it's a problem).
<
<Then why all the verbosity?  As I recall from my old version 7 days,
<what happened to the "From" lines as post marks?  It seems that this
<would work just the same without creating more "garbage" to unreliably
<transmit.  Also, I worry more about someone's mailer munging the contents
<of my note by going in and altering things than I do mail not getting
<to where I want it!

All too many systems *don't* edit themselves into the From line (and
some put themselves in the From: line!!! Grrr) 

As for munging things by going in and changing things, what do you think
asdding to the From lines is? Adding Recieved lines just takes
generating the line(s) and then appending the message to them! Much
less chance of munging things.

Much of the mail I get comes thru one or another site that doesn't add
itself to the from line. This makes "reply" useless unless I remember to
edit the header before sending. So I need to be able to go thru the
Received lines to check for sites that are unfriendly enough to not
add themselves...

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Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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