Re: Section_6.02.03 [Section 6.2: Sender]

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From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 21 1999 - 04:49:24 CDT


Claus Färber <list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de> writes:

> No! This header carries important information when author(s) -- note the
> possible plural -- and senders are not identical; It's no less secure
> than the From header.

Okay. There have been a sufficient number of horrible problems with
stupid interpretations of Sender in mail that I really wish people would
abandon it for some other approach with clearer semantics and less
historical baggage, but I can see I'm well in the minority, so I will let
consensus prevail.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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