From: Seth Breidbart (sethb@panix.com)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2001 - 22:49:22 CST
> The mailbox in the From-content SHOULD be a valid address, belonging
> to the poster(s) of the article, or person or agent on whose behalf
> the post is being sent (see the Sender header, 6.2). When, for
> personal reasons, the poster the poster does not wish to include such
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> an adddress, the From-content SHOULD then be an address which ends in
> the top level domain of ".invalid" [RFC 2606].
I also agree that the phrase "for personal reasons" should not be
present. The reasons don't matter, and the verb "wish" implies that
it is a decision of a human poster.
> Whether or not a valid address can subsequently be extracted from
> such an address falls outside the scope of this standard. However,
> there is no ownership between addresses ending in ".invalid" and
> addresses that do not, or vice versa.
I'd say "correspondance" rather than "ownership", although I prefer
wording that specifies you shouldn't use somebody else's address and
append "invalid".
> > Whether or not a valid address can subsequently be extracted from
> > such an address falls outside the scope of this standard (though
> > it would be perverse to make the disguise too easily penetrable).
"Perverse" is the wrong word, and the goal might be to make it easily
penetrable (e.g. sethbXXX@REMOVEXXX.panix.com.invalid).
}> And I still don't like "for personal reasons"...
}
} I prefer it being there, just to make it clearer that it should be due
} to user choice, rather than just randomly done by injecting agents, or
} proxies, or something.
The word "wish" implies that.
Seth