Re: WSJ/gmail/ML, was a permission to...

On 03/05/2014 19:29, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> We need to refine the spec specifically for mailing lists.  I'd love
> to read something like:
>
>     A mailing list MUST NOT tamper with the From: field.  Those who do
>     that are not mailing lists, and can work their own way out of
>     DMARC.

To be pedantic, if I send a message to a list saying:


hello ietf-822 members


and the mailing list sends a message to you saying:


hello ietf-822 members

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This is a message from the ietf-822 mailing list. To unsubscribe click here


Who is the 'author' of the message? The message you received is NOT the 
one I sent. So, I'm not the author, so why am I in the 'From' field? So, 
arguably, the From field should be changed. Possibly it should be 
changed to:

From: [email protected], [email protected]

because we both, "collaboratively", wrote the message. However, this 
would probably break some mail clients/filters/etc because using 
multiple From addresses is not "normal".



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