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Re: [ietf-822] WSJ/gmail/ML, was a permission to...

2014-05-04 06:52:11
Paul Smith wrote:
On 03/05/2014 22:13, Hector Santos wrote:
On 5/3/2014 2:59 PM, Paul Smith wrote:

Who is the 'author' of the message? The message you received is NOT
the one I sent. So, I'm not the author, so why am I in the 'From'
field? So, arguably, the From field should be changed. Possibly it
should be changed to:

From: paul(_at_)pscs(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk, ietf-822(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org

because we both, "collaboratively", wrote the message. However, this
would probably break some mail clients/filters/etc because using
multiple From addresses is not "normal".

Paul,

You need to translate this technical philosophy into client/server protocol rule which means that the authoring domain has authorized resigning with a DMARC policy. Otherwise, its will be detected as an unauthorized signer, spoofed mail.
No, all you need to do is admit that the mailing list server sent the message that came from the mailing list server - so set that to be the From/return-path.

No. If I have a secretary make 20 copies of a letter, and drop it off at the post office, I'm still the author of the message. A secretary, forwarder, mailing list, what have you, is acting on my behalf, as my agent. The letter is from me, and the return address should be mine. (In effect, when I set reply-to to list, or a mailing list sets reply-to list, is that I'm asking/expecting that everyone who got the original letter, gets a copy of any reply.)

Miles Fidelman

--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra

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