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Article #604Re: "X-" blithering
From: David Messer
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 1988 17:08
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 1988 17:08
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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.
>
> X-To: DYNSYS-L%UNCVM1.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu
...
> X-Vms-To: IN%"jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU"
>
> John Nagle
Read RFC 822.
Header fields beginning with "X-" are gauranteed to not
conflict with the standard or future versions of the standard.
(They are standard, non-standard fields ;-)
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