Why strip headers?

[Ben Finney]

On 05-May-2005, David Relson wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > My main concern with spamitarium is that it assumes X-Foo header
> > fields are malicious by default. On the contrary, there is often a
> > lot of useful information in them that bogofilter can learn from.
> 
> Since Tom is distributing the source code, you can modify it as you
> see fit.

Yes, naturally; but before changing the current implementation,
discussing the rationale for its current state seems prudent.

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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