Re: rfc2822bis -- adding clarifying Sender: text

Dave Crocker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Organization Brandenburg InternetWorking
Message-ID <[email protected]>


Pete Resnick wrote:
> things by showing only that line. Here's the new wording of the entire 
> note:
> 
> Note: The transmitter information is always present. The absence of the 
> "Sender:" field is sometimes mistakenly taken to mean that the agent 
> responsible for transmission of the message has not been specified. The 
> absence of the "Sender:" field merely means that the transmitter is 
> identical to the author and is therefore not redundantly placed into a 
> separate field.

+1

d/

ps. my motivation for pursuing this issue is that, in effect, I want to 
highlight that the agent responsible for posting really has been stated 
"explicitly".  But it merely has not be coded "differentially"...

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net
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