Re: rfc2822bis -- adding clarifying Sender: text

"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
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In <[email protected]> "Frank Ellermann" <[email protected]> writes:

>Charles Lindsey wrote:
> 
>> there are situations where an existing Sender currently
>> IS modified, that being regarded as good practice.

>The precise number of RFCs discussing to *modify* an
>existing Sender header field I'm aware of is zero, what
>do you have in mind ?

That is because there is currently no RFC covering best practices for
mailing list expansions (that is a gap that ought to be filled).

But nevertheless, the practice of forcing the address of the mailing list
expander into the Sender header (whether or not such a header was present
before hand) is so widespread that any RFC that might appear in future
would have a hard time it is tried to reverse that convention.

De Facto, that is the accepted usage, and we have to live with that.

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