Re: MTS transparency and anonymity

Tony Finch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>
> There are four solutions that have been proposed:
>
> 1. Omit the From field entirely
> 2. Use some invalid domain, e.g. @blah.invalid.
> 3. Use some invalid IP, e.g. @[] or @[0,0,0,0]
> 4. Introduce some new syntax, e.g. From: "Mickey Mouse" <>

5. Don't make any change because pseudonymity is enough.

Some systems reject messages that have no valid originator address in the
message header, so if there is no From: there would have to be a Sender:
In addition to that, this kind of checking would also cause them to reject
[email protected] From: addresses, or those using bogon IP addresses in
domain literals.

Tony.
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