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Re: [ietf-smtp] Curious, with this now being associated to emailcore, should list name change?

Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net> Tue, 21 July 2020 21:18 UTC

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From: Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net>
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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] Curious, with this now being associated to emailcore, should list name change?
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On 21 Jul 2020, at 2:37, Dilyan Palauzov wrote:

> X-headers are useful to insert information about what and why 
> intermediate hosts think about the spam probability of a message.

But why start them with "X-"? Why not just "Spam-Flag" and "Spam-Score", 
etc.?

pr
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