Re: Sender header

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From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 03:35:41 CST


Charles Lindsey said:
> OK, it now says
>
> 10. The injecting agent MUST NOT alter the body of the article in
> any way. It MAY add other headers not already provided by the
> poster, but SHOULD NOT alter, delete, or reorder any existing
> header, with the specific exception of "tracing" headers such as
> Injector-Info and Complaints-To, which are to be removed as
> already mentioned.

"which are to be removed" should be "which MAY be removed". Or is it SHOULD,
or MUST ?

> What I now have is:
>
> NOTE: The addition of non-mandatory headers by the injecting
> agent may alter the posting agent's preferred presentation of
> information. Ideally, the injecting agent will comply with the
> poster's preferences; in particular, adding a Sender-header that
> exposes a sender's mailbox has privacy implications, and it is
> preferable to add any such tracing information via the Injector-Info
> header as set out in 6.19.1.

I could live with that.

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