From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 11:58:57 CST
>> Remove the From: header altogether and
>> let's stop violating privacy principles.
>
>As I said before: Let's make it optional.
From C News experience, many things will break if you do that. Quite a
bit of software assumes that the six classically-mandatory headers are
always there. We originally left From and Subject optional -- after all,
nothing in the server software needed to look at them -- but we caught so
much flak over it that we gave in and started insisting on them being
present.
The *contents* of From may be a privacy issue, but its presence is an
interoperability issue.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net