Re: Sender header

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 05:33:39 CST


In <200201111356.g0BDudf03439@jefferson.patriot.net> "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <Shmuel@acm.org> writes:

>In <Gpo6FB.Ky@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>, on 01/09/2002
> at 11:54 AM, chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) said:

>> NOTE: Care needs to be exercised, when adding any
>>non-mandatory
>> header in this way, to ensure that the intentions of the
>>poster
>> are preserved. In particular, the addition of a Sender header
>> would have privacy implications similar to those set out in
>> 6.19.1 regarding the Injector-Info header.

>That would imply that injecting a Sender header is no worse than
>injecting an Injector-Infor header. For those who are concerned with
>spam but not with anonimity, injecting a Sender header is far worse. I
>suggest:

> NOTE: Care needs to be exercised, when adding any
>non-mandatory
> header in this way, to ensure that the intentions of the
>poster
> are preserved. In particular, the addition of a Sender header
> would have privacy implications well beyond those set out in
> 6.19.1 regarding the Injector-Info header, e.g., address
>harvesting
> for purposes of sending UBE.

OK, I think "well beyond" overdoes it slightly, but I have now put

        "...privacy implications over and above those set out in..."

which I think makes it clear which of the two techniques is preferable.

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