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Article #599Re: "X-" blithering
From: Ka Kahula
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 1988 16:19
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 1988 16:19
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The point is not "What does it mean?" but rather "What the hell good is it?" I think most of the "X-" headers ever used are useless and were probably inserted for someone's own fun or for, as jbn suggests, self-promotion. The "X-Mailer" headers are the ones the really get my dander up, but even worse than these are the one or two dweebs out there who insert "Precedence: special-delivery" into every message they send! They know who they are ... ________________________________________________________ Matt Crawford matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!gatech!ncar!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Ka Kahula) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: "X-" blithering Keywords: X Message-ID: <14977@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> Date: 3 Aug 88 16:19:44 GMT References: <17601@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <601@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Organization: If you worked here you'd go home by now Lines: 9