I don't see why the originating IP address being present in the header would be objectionable "for a lot of people" (spammers excluded, of course). Furthermore, as I wrote earlier, Geof's IP address is a private, internal, non-routable one (192.168.1.63). Kind of hard for anyone to trace this IP back to Geof -- or am I missing something?
Guy
The only concern I can think of is that you lose a bit of security through obscurity this way. If someone manages to compromise your network, they'll easily know the IP addresses of your machine(s) if they're looking for something in particular. Of course, you should never rely only on security through obscurity, so it shouldn't matter. Right?
I find that these headers are actually usually quite useful. Recently I got an e-mail from a friend saying "You'll never guess where I am..." - thankfully, I didn't have to. A quick ARIN lookup and traceroute told me everything I needed to know :)
Bryan
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