Re: Avoiding X-Headers

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From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 09:21:52 CST


greg andruk said:
>> Humans often want to attach some metadata to an article, visible to people
>> who really care but not to those who just want to look at the main text.
>> X- headers is the only approach we have at present. Do we really want to
>> try to outlaw this ? How successful are we likely to be ?
> There is the RFC2822 Comments: header. For purely human-parsed text, that
> is probably enough.

What about for X-NNTP-Posting-Host (the previous value of
NNTP-Posting-Host), and other such examples ?

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