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

On Sat 03/May/2014 20:59:06 +0200 Paul Smith wrote:
> 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
> 
> -------------
> This is a message from the ietf-822 mailing list. To unsubscribe click
> here

Martin explained the difference between From: and Sender: in:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg87507.html

> Who is the 'author' of the message? The message you received is NOT
> the one I sent.

It seems to me the authored content is the same while a boilerplate
footer was added to explain why the message was resent.

> 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".

Multiple mailboxes in From: should be used when messages are
co-authored by multiple authors.

Ale

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