In addition, it's pure cosmetics.
On 1999-09-03 14:40:36 -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:40:36 -0500
> From: Jeremy Blosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: "User-Agent:" or "X-Mailer:" ??
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> Russell Hoover [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > What determines which of these two headers is displayed automatically?
>
> I *believe* at this point it's an unstable vs stable version thing. If
> you've seen 0.96. with X-Mailer, I would guess it was locally patched.
>
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