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Article #442Re: overuse of Received: headers
From: Larry Campbell
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1987 14:26
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1987 14:26
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I also would like to keep the "Received:" headers. Mail to us is often
delayed, and it's useful to know where the holdup is. As a concrete
example, we discovered through analysis of "Received:" headers that most
of our recent delays were caused by queuing at our immediate neighbor,
wjh12. That is, a message might take an hour to make the five or six
hops to wjh12, and then two days to make the last hop here. As a result,
we increased our polling frequency and switched from a normal news feed
to a compressed batched feed (wjh12 also feeds us news). This solved
the mail problem. But we would not have understood the problem nearly
as well without the "Received:" headers.
Please retain the "Received:" headers.
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Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Internet: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
uucp: {alliant,think,wjh12}!maynard!campbell +1 617 367 684
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!maynard!campbell From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: overuse of Received: headers Message-ID: <900@maynard.BSW.COM> Date: Sun, 19-Apr-87 09:26:56 EST Article-I.D.: maynard.900 Posted: Sun Apr 19 09:26:56 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 18:12:29 EST References: <8UVxtLy00UkSdSw0Co@andrew.cmu.edu> Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc. Lines: 16 Summary: please keep them in