>Eric Thomas responded with the following:
>> Fix the mail system  they are using so that it stops  including a copy of
>> the  whole  message in  each  and  every  reply.  This is  an  absolutely
>> ridiculous thing to do unless explicitly asked by the user. How would you
>> feel if this very note had started  with a 30-lines verbatim copy of your
>> original message, with all the headers and the like? And if your reply to
>> this  note started  with a  60-lines verbatim  copy of  the message  I am
>> writing which would itself have included your old message?
>
>I agree that the mail system doing this shouldn't.  The mail system I was
>refering to is a third party product, PMDF, on a VAX.  I do not want the
>user to have to know to edit out those lines.  Until I find a better way,
>I was able to get around the problem by commenting out the following line
>in the LSVXMAIL EXEC:
>
>> If Pos($,rest) ^== 0 Then Call RejMail '"Sender:", "From:" or "Reply-To:"
>
>* Taryn L. Westergaard           (602)621-2996
>* BITNET: taryn@arizvm1          INTERNET: [log in to unmask]
 
PMDF is not a mail system, just a router.  It builds 822 headers but has
nothing to do with what the body of the mail message.  We've never had
any problems like this with PMDF.  What exactly do you think it's doing?