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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
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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 ...
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Matt Crawford	     		matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu