[CrackMonkey] God's work

[Danny O'Brien]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 07:00:08PM +0000, Irish Bastard wrote:
> 
> Why are you so fond of my inbox all of a sudden?
> 

Oh, I'm sorry. Let's step outside again, shall we?

> >>>>> "DOB" == Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> writes:
> 
>     DOB> On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 06:34:54PM +0000, Irish Bastard wrote:
>     >> Your redundant Reply-To field intrigues me.
>     DOB> And I like the superfluousness of your User-Agent comment
>     DOB> field.
> 
> Oh, and yours isn't for what reason, precisely?
> 

As anyone who stopped asking questions long enough to think might uncover,
*my* mailreader doesn't reiterate exactly the same version details in the
comment field as it did in the former product-version token.

User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7
                          ^^useful^^

It's this sense of needless waste among Emacs users that has directly lead to
the present ecological nightmare. At least I can say that Reply-To was down to
simply not caring. I do believe you LISP people actually enjoy watching
coastal ports being drowned to feed your bloated Harkonnen-like appetites.

d.

> >From the Gnus manual:
> 
> > *Son-of-RFC 1036*
> >      We do have some breaches to this one.
> > 
> >     _X-Newsreader_
> >     _User-Agent_
> > 
> >     These are considered to be "vanity headers", while I consider them
> >     to be consumer information.  After seeing so many badly formatted
> >     articles coming from `tin' and `Netscape' I know not to use either
> >     of those for posting articles.  I would not have known that if it
> >     wasn't for the `X-Newsreader' header.
> 
> I agree with Lars' reasoning on this one.