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Article #601Re: "X-" blithering
From: Matt Landau
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 1988 19:00
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 1988 19:00
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In comp.mail.headers, matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU writes: >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 The most useful X- header I've seen is X-Content-Type, an unofficial way of doing the Content-Type: header that Marvin Sirbu has proposed as an extension to 822 for mail systems capable of accepting and displaying different message types (text, PostScript, Andrew message format, Diamond encoded multimedia format, etc.) On the other hand, X-Zippy-Quote-of-the-Day is at least amusing once in a while, and X-Return-Path can be a useful hint to a USER saddled with a brain-dead mailer, whereas X-Mailer is just annoying.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!gatech!bbn!diamond.bbn.com!mlandau From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: "X-" blithering Keywords: X Message-ID: <11387@jade.BBN.COM> Date: 3 Aug 88 19:00:09 GMT References: <17601@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <601@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <14977@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> Reply-To: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 13