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Re: rfc2822bis -- adding clarifying Sender: text

2008-01-15 14:47:53

On 1/15/08 at 10:18 AM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:

Note: The Sender (responsible agent) information is always present. The absence of the "Sender:" field merely means that the information is redundant with the "From:" field, so it is not redundantly encoded into a separate field. The absence of the "Sender:" field sometimes confuses readers into believing that the Sender responsible agent information has not been specified explicitly.

How about this (to better conform to the current language):

Note: The transmitter information is always present. The absence of the "Sender:" field is sometimes mistakenly taken to mean that the agent responsible for transmission of the message has not been specified explicitly. The absence of the "Sender:" field merely means that the transmitter is identical to the author, so it is not redundantly placed into a separate field.

Does that convey the correct information?

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