Re: Sender header

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From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 11:50:27 CST


Charles Lindsey said:
> 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. 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 using one of the
> options provided for the Injector-Info header (6.19.1).

I can live with that wording.

However, I've figured out what was nagging me about this. The assumption
throughout this discussion has been that the reason injectors add Sender:
is for traceability. When this is the case (and it often is),
Injector-Info: is better. However, this wording fails to allow for other
situations.

Try this:

          NOTE: The addition of non-mandatory headers by the injecting
          agent may alter the posting agent's preferred presentation of
          information. In particular, adding a Sender-header that exposes
          a sender's mailbox has privacy implications; where the main or
          only purpose for doing so is as tracing information, it is
          preferable for injecting agents to instead use one of the
          options provided for the Injector-Info header (6.19.1).

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