Message-Id: <199904092035.QAA08578@astro.cs.utk.edu>
From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
cc: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>,
        IETF working group on revision of mail standards <drums@cs.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: X-headers cause uexpected behavior 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Apr 1999 00:54:56 +1000."
             <18204.923583296@munnari.OZ.AU> 
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 16:35:45 -0400
Sender: moore@cs.utk.edu

> The alternative is to make it quite clear that X headers should
> never be used for anything (and ideally should never be transmitted
> eitehr).  They're a poor idea, with almost no rational use.

Problem is, vendors are going to put their vendor-specific
information somewhere.  They will either do it in X- headers and
leave the rest of the header name space alone, or they will define 
their own header names which will cause conflicts not only with 
other vendors, but also with things we want to standardize in 
the future.

But as I told Jacob in private mail, it's too late for DRUMS to
say anything about this.  We need to get the DRUMS work out the 
door, and we can't do that by opening up new issues.

Keith