Re: Mailing lists as 2822-Sender (was: Responsibility vs. Validity)

[Apologies for duplicates, if any. List issues and decided to Cc 
ietf-822 and ietf-smtp.]

On 12/1/07 at 3:30 PM +0000, John Levine wrote:

>RFC 2822 section 3.6.2 describes originator fields.  By my reading 
>it is pretty clear that a list should add a Sender: field with the 
>list's name since it's the list that's sending the mail.

Uh.....not by my reading. Lists add List-* fields (RFC 2369, RFC 
2919) if they want to indicate something. Fields in the original 
message should be preserved as-is.

>Section 3.6.6 describes resent headers.  One could make a plausible 
>argument that a list should add a Resent-Sender: rather than a 
>Sender: but it's reasonable to do it either way.

Mailing lists using Resent-* fields gives me the willies. Resent-* 
fields were intended for MUAs resending mail. They weren't intended 
for mailing lists.

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Pete Resnick <http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/>
Qualcomm Incorporated
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Pete Resnick <http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/>
Qualcomm Incorporated