[LINK] Header overkill

[Roger Clarke]

>On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>>  Took me awhile to find the message in this one, 2 screens of header came
>>  first!  What is the world coming to!

Howard Lowndes <lannet at lannet.com.au>
>It' coming, yeah come, to the fact that so much email now is SPAM or
>viruses.  I put my own emails thru 3 screening processes before they hit
>the mailbox:

But:
(1)  why are headers headers, and not footers?  Is it because email
      standards only allow for headers and not footers?  If so, they are
      *record*-headers, but does that mean that they have to be rendered
      in the first few lines of the display?  That's a decision by the
      designers of email-clients presumably;
(2)  why can't they be suppressed in the default display, and only
      visible when the user selects the display of full header information?

-- 
Roger Clarke              http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/

Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA
                 Tel: +61 2 6288 1472, and 6288 6916
mailto:Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au            http://www.xamax.com.au/

Visiting Professor in the eCommerce Program, University of Hong Kong
Visiting Professor in the Baker Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre, U.N.S.W
Visiting Fellow in Computer Science, Australian National University