From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar-usefor@algonet.se)
Date: Sun Feb 10 2002 - 12:23:10 CST
"Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <Shmuel+gen@patriot.net> writes:
> In <20020203163343.19883.qmail@wilhelmina.algonet.se>, on 02/03/2002
> at 04:33 PM, sommar-usefor@algonet.se (Erland Sommarskog) said:
>
> >Note here that any adderss I may have elsewhere is irrelevant.
>
> No. It is valid to post with any of your addresses.
Has anyone said that it is invalid? If the server would find it invalid
to do so, it would not insert a Sender address - it would reject the
posting.
> I don't normally agree with John Stanley on much, but in this case he
> is right. If I post with an address that I own, the server has no
> business slapping a bogus Sender Header in my article. Sender is only
> intended for the case where the From address is not owned by the
> sender.
That is however not what the draft says, nor the practice, at least
not in the past.
> Further, inserting the Sender exposes the user to harvesting.
If the newsgroup is distributed world-wide, yes. Please don't forget
that there are newsgroups which reside only a local server, and
Usefor applies to them as well.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se