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- From: pwl@tc.fluke.COM (Paul Lutt)
- Subject: X-FOOBAR: style headers (What are they?)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.160603.4774@tc.fluke.COM>
- Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:06:03 GMT
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- While not a newcomer to email or netnews, I'm a bit confused about the
- origin and use of email headers of the form:
-
- X-FOOBAR:
-
- Where FOOBAR may be some commonly used header field, such as
- FROM.
-
- I've looked through the RFCs that we have locally and can find no
- mention of this practice. Could some kind soul please enlighten me?
- Thanks.
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- Paul Lutt
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