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>>>>> On 8 Mar 91 03:12:12 GMT, kyle@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) said:
KJ> Dirk Grunwald writes:
 > How about a regexp to match the headers we do and don't want to forward?

KJ> If you're going to give someone a message, why not give them
KJ> _all_ of it, and let _them_ decide which headers they want and
KJ> don't want?  Suppose the mail delivery agent on your host
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Because people are repelled by the vast number of headers, and have to
visually sort out this (99% of the time) meaningless data in order to
understand what you're trying to say. I have enough trouble with
that.

Most often, I use forwarding to pass on a message, i.e. ``look at what
joe had to say about this''. Most of the headers are totally pointless
for this usage. I just want the date, time, originator and the
subject, usually. Why burden another mind with all of that data.

KJ> autocratically decided that you didn't need or want certain
KJ> headers and stripped them before delivering mail to your mailbox.
KJ> You're doing the same thing to the recipient of your forwarded
KJ> message.
KJ> I don't want to make this automatic, and therefore encourage it.
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...and I don't want to encourage bogus programs so I delete my C
compiler? If I were to be autocratic, I would have to explicitly set
the regexp anyway -- which means I'm probably smart enough to hack VM
to do what I want.

Other alternatives:

	+ hack VM to see these headers in forwarded messages and
	  suppress them like it suppresses other headers :-)

	+ support forwarding via super-cite, which is usually what
	  I want anyway.