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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Barnes (409) 846-3273 (home) [log in to unmask] (409) 845-8300 (work) "Money makes a very, very, very poor master, but a very, very, very good slave." - Mark Pruitt