From: Brad Templeton (brad@main.templetons.com)
Date: Mon Sep 20 1999 - 15:55:54 CDT
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 09:16:52AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Okay, let's tackle this in chunks.
> > Sender-content = mailbox
>
> Can we please deprecate or eliminate this? Nothing on Usenet does
> anything good with it, it's not useful for authentication, if it were
True, but it has a meaning that makes sense. It is the proper place for
gateways to identify themselves, and thus also to gain authority to cancel
a message if cancel is done with a public key signed cancel.
A moderator is in fact a type of sender in a special sub-class using the
approved header instead of the sender header.
Primary use would be mail to news gateways, or possibly large site
gateways. Is this the same as the injector? Possibly not, though often
it might be.
Perhaps the rule should be that the sender header is to be only used by
a 3rd party sender if it is not the injector?