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Article #453Re: overuse of Received: headers
From: Nathaniel Borenstein
Date: Thu, 07 May 1987 13:44
Date: Thu, 07 May 1987 13:44
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X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 327 X-Trace: MS Version 3.25 on ibm032 host larimer.itc.cmu.edu, by nsb (327). To: outnews#ext.nn.comp.mail.headers@andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <1606@umd5.umd.edu> The "received" headers are also useful even for mail "within one site" when that site is actually a distributed system. For example, what the world sees as "andrew.cmu.edu" is actually a network of many hundreds (soon to be many thousands) of workstations sharing a distributed central file system. Mail transfer even within such a system is decidedly non-trivial, and the received headers trace the "internal" path that mail delivery takes, which may vary if file servers are down, for example. In short, the received lines are useful *almost everywhere*. I'd hate to see them reduced. -- Nathaniel Borenstein Andrew Message System group nsb+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!nsb# From: nsb#@andrew.cmu.edu (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: overuse of Received: headers Message-ID: <wUc8zGy00Uk4Ioc2tv@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 7-May-87 09:44:50 EDT Article-I.D.: andrew.wUc8zGy00Uk4Ioc2tv Posted: Thu May 7 09:44:50 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 04:16:35 EDT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University Lines: 14 Return-path: <nsb#@andrew.cmu.edu>