Re: overuse of Received: headers

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1 total messages Started by Nathaniel Borenstein Thu, 07 May 1987 13:44

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Author: Nathaniel Borenstein
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

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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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