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Re: "Status" header

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From: Bill Wisner
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1989 05:19
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MH can be instructed to keep track of messages that have not been seen by
putting them into an "unseen" sequence. It never touches the actual messages
to do this.

MH can also be instructed to keep track of when a message is replied,
forwarded, or whatever. It does not use the utterly bogus and highly ugly
Status: header. It inserts two header lines at the very top of the message
(thus making them very easy to edit out) along the lines of:

Replied: Tue, 27 Jun 89 12:59:17 PDT
Replied: Martin Hanley <praxis!mph@uunet.UU.NET>

(Look, Martin! Your name in lights!)

Note that MH does none of these things unless explicitly told to.

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From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner)
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Subject: Re: "Status" header
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Date: 29 Jun 89 05:19:23 GMT
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