Re: Sender header

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 03:56:24 CST


In <Gsq1q3.1AG@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net) writes:

>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).

Well yes, but not with that split infinitive :-( .

I now have:

        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 to use instead one of the options provided for the
        Injector-Info header (6.19.1).

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