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Re: rfc2822bis -- adding clarifying Sender: text

2008-01-22 14:16:38



Pete Resnick wrote:
things by showing only that line. Here's the new wording of the entire note:

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. The absence of the "Sender:" field merely means that the transmitter is identical to the author and is therefore not redundantly placed into a separate field.

+1

d/

ps. my motivation for pursuing this issue is that, in effect, I want to highlight that the agent responsible for posting really has been stated "explicitly". But it merely has not be coded "differentially"...

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