Re: mailto:address?subject=subject URL support

[John Griffith <griffith@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>]

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

True.  RFC-822 forbids officially published field names from beginning
with "X-" which makes them safe for user-defined purposes, but still
it seems that there are some pseudo standards among "X-" fields.  You
for instance, apparently use "X-Url" for your homepage.  This seems to
be such a common usage that some people who use BBDB collect this
information for addresses in their database.  Now to be "more"
accurate, I would have to notice whether or not the message was sent
from Netscape.  Of course Netscape's use of "X-Url" would also allow
me to infer (to some degree) that someone clicked the mail button on
one of my pages and which page it was.  This seems like a nice
feature.  However, it would have been nice if Netscape had picked a
different field name, but I don't deny their right to use "X-Url" for
this purpose.