From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 17:46:28 CST
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@prodigy.com> writes:
> The Sender header is used to indicate the person or software which has
> provided the article on behalf of the originator. It is set by the
> submitter and MUST NOT by provided or modified by the injector. An
> injector which determines that the From and/or Sender header is
> incorrect SHOULD reject the article.
This doesn't fit existing practice, nor does it fit what news
administrators explicitly ask for. We didn't add nnrpdauthsender to INN
just because we felt like it. It's a widely requested feature.
It may not be appropriate on Usenet as a whole; opinions differ. It's
very appropriate for things like closed internal groups in an
organization.
Now you can switch from Sender to some other header for inserting that
information if you feel like it. I think that's bike shed painting, but
whatever. But while it most certainly should be optional, some people are
going to want to turn it on and are going to want the injector to put a
real e-mail address in the headers. People who don't like that behavior
can not use those servers.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>