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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: "X-" blithering
Keywords: X
Message-ID: <17605@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 3 Aug 88 17:19:34 GMT
References: <17601@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <601@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <601@helios.ee.lbl.gov> dagg@lbl.gov (Darren Griffiths) writes:
>Things in a mail header that have an "X-" flag are mailer independant.  

     Shouldn't this be "mailer dependent"?

Incidentally, some new examples of advertising have arrived.

	X-Mailer: MMDF/Ream version 4.12 (The Choice for a New Generation)
	X-Subliminal-Message: Send me all your money

My point is that this may be getting out of hand.  But it will probably
get worse for a while, and then some sites will start trimming headers
during forwarding.


					John Nagle