On Sun, 2009-01-04, Dave CROCKER wrote:
From: ACME Chief Officers:
Alice <ceo(_at_)acme(_dot_)example(_dot_)com>,
Bob <coo(_at_)acme(_dot_)example(_dot_)com>;
There must have been *some* concept of email that dictated that a message
could be sent *to* a group but not *from* one!
I don't remember whether this idea came up during discussions for RFC 733. I
don't think so, although it certainly seems to me to be as reasonable to be
able
to apply the construct to the author field as to a recipient field. But since
the construct so infrequently used, I'm not sure it's all that helpful to
explore this "enhancement"...
Well, this prompted me to go searching the RFCs, and I found out that the
"From: group: ... ;" construct WAS allowed in RFCs 724 and 733 but was
removed in 822. There are examples showing exactly this construct in the
earlier RFCs (724: II.D.i and 733: V.C.9), but the corresponding example
has been changed in 822 (A.2.7) and a note added specifically saying:
Note that the name
of the committee cannot be specified, since <group> names are
not permitted in the From field.
I'd love to see the discussion that brought about that change. :-)
Anyway, this tangent has probably run it's course, so I'll drop it on this
list.
--
Bill McQuillan <McQuilWP(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com>
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