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Aucbvax.3078 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Fri Sep 11 06:13:05 1981 Re: Wizard mailbox >From gann@LL-ASG Fri Sep 11 06:06:56 1981 Jay Lepreau gave me the key to the trailing lines: Unix mailers (including mine) append a blank line every time they are forwarded, including the large number of hops on uucpnet and at the SRI machine. Jeffrey Mogul also sent at reply which vividly pointed out the gross proliferation of header lines in these exchanges which significantly aggravates the problem. I was wrong in assuming that the sending mailer had added all the lines. I had not correlated the lines with the number of forwarding operations. Sorry about that. It certainly does illustrate the value of programs (and systems) doing exactly what they are asked to do. --Jerry

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