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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> X-* is blessed by the standard to contain experimental stuff,
>
> X-headers are no longer part of RFC 2822.  Intially, I thought this
> was silly, but it makes sense (think of X-No-Archive etc.).

Ouch.  I find it somewhat disappointing that this isn't even mentioned
in 2822, as 822 says that X- will never be used by standards and is a
protected namespace.  This breaks backwards compatibility.  Sigh.