Re: draft-lilly-from-optional-01.txt

Bruce Lilly wrote:

> In the meantime, though, we shouldn't avoid solving existing
> problems where solutions are possible.

The main problem of your draft is that you can't publish it
1975 or maybe 1985.  In the real world today users would be
forced to use a non-emtpy From even if your draft is an RfC
updating numerous other RfCs.  But that won't update the
<joke> 4 billion </joke> pieces of software insisting on a
non-empty From.

What you really get is a new feature for new implementations
which nobody can use.  From: [email protected] hacks are ugly,
but users and UAs will learn to interpret it correctly without
killing some poor DNS root-servers.

                      Bye, Frank