On 7/18/2002 5:39 AM, Ben Bucksch apparently wrote exactly the following:
> Jay Garcia wrote:
>> It was my understanding from a "Netscape Mail/News Programmer" that any
>> header entry preceded by an "X" was non-standard.
> That's true. That doesn't make "User-Agent" a standard. I'd say that
> X-Mailer is more of a standard (because it's used by so many apps) than
> User-Agent.
The "X-" in front of a header or a mime type means "non-standard
extension". By the same logic, *no* "X-" in front of them means "header
/ mime type *has* been accepted as standard". So, "User-Agent" is a
standard, while "X-Mailer" clearly isn't.
> BTW: You can freely use real names here.
How does it matter what person it was?
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