From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8474 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Griffith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mailto:address?subject=subject URL support Date: 24 Oct 1996 09:49:43 +0200 Sender: griffith@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de Message-ID: References: <199610021459.HAA00395@newman.in.aventail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.68) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148629 12339 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:17:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:17:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 9804 invoked from smtpd); 24 Oct 1996 08:14:41 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 24 Oct 1996 08:14:40 -0000 Original-Received: from filippo.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (filippo.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.129.45]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:49:48 +0200 Original-Received: (from griffith@localhost) by filippo.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA21685; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:49:44 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 23 Oct 1996 11:52:00 -0700 Original-Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.49/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8474 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8474 >> "SLB" == Steven L Baur writes: >> "John" == John Griffith 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.