----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Crocker" <[email protected]>
> To: "Jim Popovitch" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2012 8:01:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [dmarc-discuss] Mailing lists support for DMARC
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/3/2012 9:02 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > The From: string will look like this: "Dave Crocker"
> > <[email protected]>
> ...
> > One side affect of this, currently, is that it takes looking at the
> > headers (which you can't do by browsing the mailman mailinglist
> > acrhive) in order to see the posters real email address.
> 
> This strikes me as a major negative.


This strikes me as a major positive: no email scrubbing possible

> 
> 
> > On 7/4/2012 7:42 AM, Steve Atkins wrote:
> >> On a practical level, rewriting the From: to be the list address
> >> would make it difficult to reply to the author, as their email
> >> address isn't going to be in any header that the MUA knows what to
> >> do  with.
> 
> If I read the code correctly, the original author's address is added
> to
> the Reply-to.  MUA support of reply-to is a bit variable, but
> generally
> it is supported.
> 
> On the other hand, automatically adding the author's original From:
> address to an existing Reply-To: field violates the intent of the
> intended use of Reply-To: as an override of the From: field for
> replies...
> 

Who do you want to reply to? The Poster or the Author? Mailman already 
overrides the From field by a Reply-to in some cases and one is emotional about 
it.


But what do you suggest should be done?
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