On Wed, 26 Oct 1994 18:02:33 +0100 Eric Thomas said:
>This has been  discussed at least a million time...  A very long argument
>that leads to a rather simple situation. Either there is a GOOD REASON to
>add a "Sender:" field, or it  doesn't really matter and both addresses do
>the same and go  to the same person. If it doesn't  really matter then it
>shouldn't really  matter whether  LISTSERV uses  "Sender:" or  "From:" to
>send its reply. If there was a  GOOD REASON to add a "Sender:" field with
>a different address,  then there is the same GOOD  REASON for LISTSERV to
>use that  field and not  "From:", otherwise why  insert it? The  catch of
>course is that there is a third  option: the case where a "Sender:" field
>was inserted  that does  not point  to the same  person, and  where there
>isn't  any good  reason for  inserting that  field ("it  looks cute",  "I
>didn't read the  RFCs carefully and I  thought my gateway HAD  to do it",
>etc). In that  case the gateway should  be changed. I really  have a hard
>time understanding people  who make their gateway  put their (postmaster)
>address in the "Sender:" field, and  then complain that they actually get
>mail as a result.
 
 
Just so that I understand:
 
I should tell the bozo administrator that was rude to me that it was
him that screwed up by putting his address in the Sender: field in
the first place?
 
(I can buy that, if that's what you're saying).
 
 
>As for  "Reply-To:", LISTSERV does  not use  it to send  command replies.
>This is  a design decision,  there are  arguments for both  cases. RFC822
>does  not  mandate  the use  of  the  "Reply-To:"  field,  it is  just  a
>suggestion. Besides, there  was no automated mail server  when RFC822 was
>written.
 
Well, I don't think either
 a) where the "your message has been forwarded..." blurb
 b) Editor= field values
 
need to worry about Reply-To tags.  But that's just mho.
 
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