Re: Origins of message modification

[Tony Finch <dot@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
>
> Didn't address fields need to be modified by email gateways in the eighties?

Gateways aren't the problem we're discussing, which is that Internet email
by itself uses the message header for both user-level and transport-level
information, which implies a lot of fiddling with the message data as it
is transported.

Tony.
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