From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39616 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: User-Agent header: indicate system-type? Date: 22 Oct 2001 14:54:52 -0400 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <01Oct22.145850edt.119133@gateway.intersys.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175300 28915 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:41:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 7327 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2001 19:00:38 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 22 Oct 2001 19:00:38 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15vkIO-0000yR-00; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:59:32 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:59:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA01959 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:58:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 7279 invoked by alias); 22 Oct 2001 18:59:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7274 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2001 18:59:14 -0000 Original-Received: from gateway.intersys.com (HELO intersys.com) (198.133.74.253) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Oct 2001 18:59:14 -0000 Original-Received: by gateway.intersys.com id <119133>; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:58:50 -0400 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39616 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39616 * Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) on Mon, 22 Oct 2001 | WIBNI one could see from the User-Agent whether the user was using | Windows? No, I don't think inserting a person's OS information in publically posted and often archived messages is a good thing. [Insert privacy and security rant here] Okay, perhaps it might be useful for debugging purposes, but I think it should not be done in released versions of Gnus. -- Rat \ Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid core, Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ which, if exposed due to rupture, should PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.