From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: DJGPP AT Sun DOT SOE DOT Clarkson DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 07:57:01 BST
Subject: Re: Header re-writing

  Various people have written on the uses and legalities of letting list
servers alter "From:" and "Sender:" and "Reply-To:" lines of messages. I am
not expressing an opinion here about <those>, but, to save much email space
and time, why can't djgpp etc, as it sends messages on, chuck out the
Received: travelogue, and the X-this-and-that:, and the line telling me that
Anastasios Kotsinikas (whoever he is) wrote the emailer that handled the
message, and all such stale emailer exhaust that wastes emailer disk space and
wastes emailer relayer time and is rarely read by the recipient? In a mail
file with 100 messages on, Received: lines alone can add up to quite a lot of
wasted space.