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>>>>> "John" == John Griffith <griffith@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>>>>> "SLB" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

John> I thought "X-URL" was supposed to be for *my* URL!?!  Guess not.

SLB> It's an X- header.  It can have whatever meaning you (or anyone else)
SLB> assigns to it.

John> but still it seems that there are some pseudo standards among
John> "X-" fields.  You for instance, apparently use "X-Url" for your
John> homepage.  This seems to be such a common usage that some people
John> who use BBDB collect this information for addresses in their
John> database.

It's a convention used by exmh (the MH frontend I used prior to
switching to Gnus for email).  I don't know where Brent Welch picked
it up from, maybe Wes knows.  A header of that type is turned into a
nice clickable button on the X-Faces line.  I submitted the patch to
Gnus to make it work in a similar way, so I guess you could blame me
for that.  But absolutely count on Netscape to ignore existing usage
and reinvent the wheel in their own fashion :-(.
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