stewarta@sco.COM (Stewart I. Alpert) (08/04/88)
In article <17601@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) writes: > > The X mail system (is this part of X windows?) seems to indulge in >heavy self-promotion. Is all the following, taken from incoming mail, >necessary? It has little value to the recipient. > > The X-whatever headers are not from any single system. There is an RFC-822 convention that allows [programs|sites|people|etc] to add their own headers by proceeding them with 'X-'. This assures that RFC-822 compliant mailers won't confuse these with 'officially' defined headers. These headers may or may not have any value to the recipient (or sender for that matter). :-) ***************************************************************************** Internet: stewarta@sco.COM UUCP: {uunet,ucbvax!ucscc,decvax!miscosoft}!sco!stewarta