Re: Mandatory From field, anonymity, and hacks

In <A6BB0430-EB92-11D8-AAA9-000393DB5366(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> Keith 
Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:

> >    From: <""@[]>
> > is syntactically valid, though.
> yeech.
Agreed.

> my gut sense is that omitting From: will cause fewer problems than 
> either From: <> or From: <""@[]>
But none of these is of any use to the man who wants to include a mailbox
of some sort (to distinguish him from all the other Joe Does), or who even
want to hide his real mail address inside the bogus one in a form that a
human can easily disentangle.

Both these practices are already widespread, and they are not going to
stop just because we say so.

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