Re: Avoiding X-Headers

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From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel@acm.org)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 07:55:10 CST


In <Pine.BSI.3.91.1011231205935.4003B-100000@spsystems.net>, on
12/31/2001
   at 09:02 PM, Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> said:

>Since any X- header which appears on the net at large is, by
>definition, an escaped experiment, it should always be ignored.

Unfortunately, existing practice doesn't match that. Before we outlaw
propagation of, e.g., X-No-Archive, X-No-Ahbou, we need to define new
headers and convince the vendors of widely deployed software and
services to support them.
 

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