Re: Mandatory From field, anonymity, and hacks

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:48:55 -0400, Keith Moore 
<moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> wrote:

> On Jul 26, 2004, at 10:40 PM, Bruce Lilly wrote:
>
> > As noted above, the most important thing is that the sender envelope
> > address be usable.
> in a news-to-mail gateway?  I think not.  the sender of a usenet message  
> doesn't want to know whether some random recipient got the message.
I believe the normal practice in a news-to-mail gateway would be to set  
the Sender address and the Return-Path to the gateway.
> > Usenet news is an application of the RFC [2]822 Internet Message Format.
> no more than SMTP is an application of the FTP protocol.  in either case
> the two are similar but different protocols, with different syntax and
> semantics.  there are both advantages and disadvantages to having
> usenet and [2]822 so similar.
Thank you for that. Bruce has been trying to say for months that Netnews  
is just a special kind of mail that is bound by RFC 2822. Which is of  
course nonsense. They are different protocols, and the fact that Netnews  
tries to follow RFC 2822 whereever it can is that it makes good sense to  
do so, not because there is some law of the universe that says it must.
I note that there are other protocols which depart from RFC 2822 much more  
than Netnews does, with the full blessing of the IESG (SIP, for example).


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