That's a good point. *shrug*

Jeff

On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 14:58, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 14:37, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Here's a tiny patch which adds the GNU host type 
> > (e.g. powerpc-debian-linux-gnu) to the X-Mailer header.  I like to see
> > what systems people are running; for example, if I know someone is
> > running Debian, then I can give them Debian-specific advice without
> > having to ask first.
> > 
> > Other mailers (Gnus and Sylpheed come to mind) do this.
> 
> Actually, mailers like Pine removed this feature since it was considered
> a security risk.  Would you want _everyone_ you sent mail to to know
> what OS and platform you ran on?  This might be a nice optional feature,
> but I couldn't see this as being enabled by default.
> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > 
> > ----
> > 
> 
> > --- configure.in.~1.472.~   Wed Jun  5 22:18:22 2002
> > +++ configure.in    Sat Jun 15 00:32:27 2002
> > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
> >  
> >  AC_CANONICAL_HOST
> >  
> > -AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(VERSION_COMMENT, "(Preview Release)")
> > +AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(VERSION_COMMENT, "(Preview Release) on 
>$host_cpu-$host_vendor-$host_os")
> >  
> >  AC_DEFUN(EVO_CHECK_LIB, [
> >     dispname="$1"
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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