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RFC 2822 says emails can have user defined headers of the form X-header: Usenet posts can have custom headers of this form also.
 
RFC 2822 says emails can have user defined headers of the form X-header: Usenet posts can have custom headers of this form also.
   
A popular use of this is the [[XFace|X-Face]] header.
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A popular use of this is the [[XFace X-Face]] header.
   
 
Here are some other good custom headers I've found in my mailboxes...
 
Here are some other good custom headers I've found in my mailboxes...
   
 
http://www.nut.house.cx/~nemo/visible/X-headers
 
http://www.nut.house.cx/~nemo/visible/X-headers
 
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For myself, I'm planning to steal and create a bunch of X- headers, and mostly use them as an alternative to trying to optimise so much junk in my signature. :) --Nemo
 
 
Some of my favourites (ie, ones I plan to use, more or less)
 
 
X-Disclaimer: Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilisation.
 
X-Answer: forty-two
 
X-AYPWIP: Wuh, I think so Brain, but we'll never get a monkey to use dental floss.
 
X-Rays: Do not expose this message to X-rays.
 
X-treme-sport-you-havent-tried-yet: Kissing My Arse
 
X-Dictionary: Use it to look up more words starting with X.
 
X-Been-There: Done That. Got the T-shirt.
 
X-Big-Brother: Is watching you.
 
X-Battle-Cry: Spoon!
 
X-Spoon: There is no spoon.
 
X-Bumpersticker: I brake for rfc2822
 
X-Go-Away: Or I shall taunt you a second time!
 
X-Message-Flag: Do not read while operating heavy machinery
 
X-Spook: Hello to all my Fans in domestic surveillance
 
X-Subliminal-Message: The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father.
 
X-Jedi-Mindtrick: This isn't the email you are looking for
 
X-Tyler-Durden-says: Make soap.
 
X-Thanks: TISM, Animaniacs, The Tick, The Matrix, Babylon5, Star Wars, Douglas Adams, Monty Python, Fight Club, George Orwell.
 
X-Signature: Mostly substituted with X- headers
 
X-Headers: It's what seperates us from the animals.
 

Revision as of 12:31, 6 March 2003

RFC 2822 says emails can have user defined headers of the form X-header: Usenet posts can have custom headers of this form also.

A popular use of this is the XFace X-Face header.

Here are some other good custom headers I've found in my mailboxes...

http://www.nut.house.cx/~nemo/visible/X-headers

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