From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 08:29:40 CST
Russ Allbery said:
> I think Henry's arguing for the outlawing of propagation of X- headers to
> Usenet as a whole. Use X- headers for localized hacks or local
> experimentation, but give the header a real name if you're going to
> distribute it to all of Usenet, even as an experiment. But I'm not sure
> that I've read his argument correctly.
>
>> The main point for me was that putting "X-" on the headers is a poor
>> design, and should be removed from the standard.
>
> It's still valuable to have a way of designating local headers. With the
> benefit of hindsight, we could have built into news software a refusal to
> propagate X- headers off the local server. Probably too late for that
> now.
Are we about to revitalize the L- header proposal ?
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