Re: Avoiding X-Headers

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From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 11:14:16 CST


On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Charles Lindsey wrote:

> In <Pine.LNX.3.91.1020111103955.8061C-100000@darkstar.prodigy.com> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@prodigy.com> writes:
>
> >Sounds right. There is no pressing reason to get rid of X-headers, and
> >some serious effort to actually make them go away. Therefore, high
> >effort, small gain, sounds like a good thing to not do.
>
> Yes, I agree with that. Are you happy with the wording I recently posted,
> which confirms that situation, but encourages non-X-headers if
> widely-delpoyed software is expected to need to understand them.

Well, I would say satisfied rather than happy, it certainly seems like
the right things to do.

That said, perhaps someone could gen up a little web page and database
which could be used to register such things? It needs a human in the loop
or hipcrime and such will flood it... But the existance of such a thing
and a posting when new headers are registered would be a nice thing to
put in a note. Not required in any way, just as a proof of concept.

-- 
   -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me


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