From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47068
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: Re: Why does Gnus generates Lines: header in mail?
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:04:36 +0200
Organization: The Church of Emacs
Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu
Message-ID: <rj7kgrpv2j.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk>
References: <ilu8z1k28u6.fsf@h28n1c1o299.bredband.skanova.com>
	<vxk7kh4khmm.fsf@cinnamon.vanillaknot.com>
	<ilu3crs27ej.fsf@h28n1c1o299.bredband.skanova.com>
	<vxk3crsk9l0.fsf@cinnamon.vanillaknot.com>
	<ilun0q065wn.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> <87vg4dj4hs.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
	<ilun0ppbzv6.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034173336 27293 127.0.0.1 (9 Oct 2002 14:22:16 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:22:16 +0000 (UTC)
Return-path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13])
	by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
	id 17zHVY-0006Dr-00
	for <ding-account@gmane.org>; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:08:17 +0200
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 17zHSn-0006qz-00; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 09:05:25 -0500
Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 09 Oct 2002 09:06:06 -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 JAA16793
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:05:54 -0500 (CDT)
Original-Received: (qmail 10668 invoked by alias); 9 Oct 2002 14:05:06 -0000
Original-Received: (qmail 10663 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2002 14:05:05 -0000
Original-Received: from sheridan.dina.kvl.dk (130.225.40.227)
  by gnus.org with SMTP; 9 Oct 2002 14:05:05 -0000
Original-Received: from zuse.dina.kvl.dk (zuse.dina.kvl.dk [130.225.40.245])
	by sheridan.dina.kvl.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id QAA28296
	for <ding@gnus.org>; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:04:38 +0200
Original-Received: (from abraham@localhost)
	by zuse.dina.kvl.dk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id QAA29350;
	Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:04:36 +0200 (MEST)
X-Authentication-Warning: zuse.dina.kvl.dk: abraham set sender to abraham@dina.kvl.dk using -f
Original-To: ding@gnus.org
X-Face: +kRV2]2q}lixHkE{U)mY#+6]{AH=yN~S9@IFiOa@X6?GM<U{B+4e{k79.Ya{~':DblFPCg$
 @60,BfLv2@SKZ19cMWK0/C'v;tM:|6B'R}U1rp6CL&kN({9<zF/V{:JCg27yC)9oZjeqcQawzKfiNL
 t9}`vjmK["dRQC/qGFQq"%u|Q`:6{"Rz}b(dnl_"3$Jtqimi>|8MBp/
In-Reply-To: <ilun0ppbzv6.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's
 message of "Tue, 08 Oct 2002 01:20:13 +0200")
Original-Lines: 9
User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1
 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8)
Precedence: list
X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47068
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47068

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> 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.

The problem is that many people interpreted it the other way, that any
non-standard headers *must* start with an "X-".  Combined the promise
above, it made it impossible to standardize experimental headers.