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Article #603Re: "X-" blithering
From: Stewart I. Alpert
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 1988 20:34
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 1988 20:34
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In article <17601@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) writes:
>
> The X mail system (is this part of X windows?) seems to indulge in
>heavy self-promotion. Is all the following, taken from incoming mail,
>necessary? It has little value to the recipient.
>
>
The X-whatever headers are not from any single system. There is an RFC-822
convention that allows [programs|sites|people|etc] to add their own headers
by proceeding them with 'X-'. This assures that RFC-822 compliant mailers
won't confuse these with 'officially' defined headers. These headers may
or may not have any value to the recipient (or sender for that matter). :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!sco!stewarta From: stewarta@sco.COM (Stewart I. Alpert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: "X-" blithering Keywords: X Message-ID: <723@viscous> Date: 3 Aug 88 20:34:33 GMT References: <17601@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Reply-To: stewarta@sco.COM (Stewart I. Alpert) Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 17