ConnectingUsenetWithFoaf

From FOAF

Tip: If you post to usenet, configure your newsreader to send an x-foaf: header containing the url of your foaf file. If enough people do this, it could be a useful feature to both discover people's foaf files, and to discover the usenet postings of somebody who you have the foaf for.

-- Jim, 5 Mar 2003 That might be interesting for email too. -- Doug, March 26, 2003

In Mozilla you can add this to your pref.js file:

user_pref("mail.compose.other.header", "X-FoaF");

And it'll add a new field in the compose window. Sadly, I can't find a way to set the content of the header, so you've to type your foaf file url.

-- Inkel, March 27, 2003

I tried updating the prefs.js with Mozilla 1.3 and it didn't work. However, installing the Mnenhy module allows you to add custom headers using the user interface. http://mnenhy.mozdev.org/

-- Doug Ransom, April 6, 2003

In order to get the changes to work, you need to first close Mozilla. But I think it's better using Mnenhy, it's a really interesting plugin.

-- Inkel, April 11, 2003 Mozilla 1.5 β now has built-in way to configure headers to be sent on every message for a particular identity.

-- Doug Ransom, August 29, 2003

If you use slrn, you can use the `custom_headers` and `followup_custom_headers` variables in the `.slrnrc` file to add the X-FoaF Header. See the Slrn manual for details.

-- Fabrizio Tarizzo, Dec 5 2003