schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu (11/29/89)
I'm curious: why does spost (we run Berkeley systems here) insist on
prepending Date: and From: fields to my outgoing messages? I think this is
extra-redundant information. I mean, after half a dozen Date's and From's
and Received By's, who wants to see another one? I've gone so far as to
edit the source and add a -nofrom switch. If the denizens of MH would like
to know what I did to add this (a mere 4 or 5 lines to send.c and spost.c,
combined), I'd be happy to show 'em.
Am I the only one that's ever said, "Now why the heck do they throw that
in, and not give you a switch to turn it off?"
In favor of leaner mail messages,
-Mike Schwager
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University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. |schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu (11/29/89)
I'm curious: why does spost (we run Berkeley systems here) insist on
prepending Date: and From: fields to my outgoing messages? I think this is
extra-redundant information. I mean, after half a dozen Date's and From's
and Received By's, who wants to see another one? I've gone so far as to
edit the source and add a -nofrom switch. If the denizens of MH would like
to know what I did to add this (a mere 4 or 5 lines to send.c and spost.c,
combined), I'd be happy to show 'em.
Am I the only one that's ever said, "Now why the heck do they throw that
in, and not give you a switch to turn it off?"
In favor of leaner mail messages,
-Mike Schwager
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University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. tr@madeleine.ctt.bellcore.com (tom reingold) (11/29/89)
On the subject of "Extra From's and Date's", schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu
writes:
$
$ I'm curious: why does spost (we run Berkeley systems here) insist on
$ prepending Date: and From: fields to my outgoing messages? I think this is
$ extra-redundant information. I mean, after half a dozen Date's and From's
$ and Received By's, who wants to see another one? I've gone so far as to
$ edit the source and add a -nofrom switch. If the denizens of MH would like
$ to know what I did to add this (a mere 4 or 5 lines to send.c and spost.c,
$ combined), I'd be happy to show 'em.
$
$ Am I the only one that's ever said, "Now why the heck do they throw that
$ in, and not give you a switch to turn it off?"
$ In favor of leaner mail messages,
$ -Mike Schwager
I don't see why it's a problem. In my .mh_profile, I have
showproc: mhl
and mhl uses ~/Mail/mhl.format or <mhdir>/etc/mhl.format. My
private copy is:
overflowtext="***",overflowoffset=5,width=256,
leftadjust,compwidth=10
ignores=msgid,message-id,received,bboard-id,bb-posted,return-path,x-mailer
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Cc:
extras:nocomponent
:
body:nocomponent,overflowtext=,overflowoffset=0,noleftadjust
so I never see that garbage.
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Well, call me weird, but whenever I've gotten mail messages, I'm frequently
annoyed by all the fields. Now that I'm a groovy MH user, I can see that I
no longer need worry about it. However, I like to keep my outgoing
messages lean and mean. Short, crisp, and to the point- no extra fluff.
Someone sent me mail and said that you want the extra From:'s and Date:'s
in there because mail administrators can then track down problems. But,
the very first thing my machine does is slap a From: and Date: field on the
message. So if the message gets anywhere at all, it's gonna have 'em.
Otherwise, any problem would certainly be on my local machine...
-Mike Schwager
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