From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-12-04T23:40:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27447] Re: New RubyGarden Poll - this one affects us all :)

"Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> writes:

> Sorry if I'm missing something obvious here. Could someone please
> explain the intended/presumed meaning/implications of "move to an
> X-ruby: header" for those of us who can't self-explain this? I can
> sort of guess from other remarks, but I may be guessing wrong, and
> others might too.

The headers of mail and news articles support 'X' lines along with the
more common 'Subject:', 'To:', 'From:' etc. X lines are different in
that they are not interpreted by mail software, they're just passed
through.

An 'X' line typically looks like:

   X-xxxxx:  stuff

If you look at a message's full set of e-mail headers, you'll often
see a number of these: mail programs use them to advertise themselves,
and mail relayers use them to stop loops. The Poll suggestion was to
move the [ruby-talk] prefix into one of these lines.


Dave


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