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From: | Bobby D. Bryant |
Subject: | [Pan-users] X-Pan-Internal headers |
Date: | Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:42:21 -0600 |
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:47:43AM +0100, Gollum wrote:When posting with Pan, it adds one or two special headers: X-Pan-Internal-Attribution (when replying) X-Pan-Internal-Post-Server (always) I've found no option to get rid of them. I suggest removing them (or making them optional), because it's nobody's business what I call theserver internally in Pan or what my default attribution is. They alsowaste bandwidth. (Not much, I admit, but they're still unnecessary.) What's the history behind these headers, BTW?The former is used in the message correctness checks for obscure reasons[1],and the latter is used to know which server to send the post to.These headers are stripped out as the message is sent to the news server,so the rest of the world doesn't see them. cheers, Charles
I find by experiment that the headers still show up when I read the article back from the newsgroup, using pan 0.13.2.91, thus:
From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <address@hidden> Organization: dis- Subject: Re: [Firefly] Whedon says he's in love Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 17:21:35 -0600 User-Agent: Pan/0.13.2.91 (A Cat Named Noburu Wataya) Message-Id: <address@hidden> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv References: <address@hidden> <address@hidden> X-Pan-Internal-Attribution: On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 18:31:03 +0000, Kevin Johnston wrote: X-Pan-Internal-Post-Server: Default MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ...On (almost) the same subject, it would be nice to move the "Don't add User-Agent header" checkbox to the individual profiles, rather than leaving it to be checked every time you post a message.
Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas
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