[news.admin] "Received:" headers

cfe+@andrew.cmu.edu (Craig F. Everhart) (07/07/87)

The multi-line (folded) Received: headers should now be gone from netnews
sent from Andrew (andrew.cmu.edu, at Carnegie-Mellon University).  The site
to which we submit our posts (via NNTP) used to delete them, but I believe
that their new version of the NNTP software stopped removing these headers.
Thus, they made it to USENET for all to poke at.  I'm sorry for the
inconvenience.

I'm told that the RMAIL package sent with GNU-Emacs adds the
	posting-front-end: gnu-emacs
header.  I don't know whether somebody here is using this package and sending
those headers.

By the way, those of you who waved the name RFC850 around should know that it
fully supports our using Received: headers in this way.  There were reasons
for removing those headers, but ``violation of RFC850'' wasn't one of them.

(My face is going to be mighty red if this appears on news.admin with our
Received: headers.)

		Craig Everhart
		Andrew message system
		cfe+@andrew.cmu.edu