On Saturday, March 30, 2013 12:35 PM [GMT+1=CET],Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote:

> On 03/30/2013 09:58 AM, J. Gomez wrote:
> > On Saturday, March 30, 2013 9:17 AM [GMT+1=CET],J. Gomez wrote:
> > > I hope some solution to this problem with mailing lists is found.
> > > Maybe mailing list software should evolve and take ownership of
> > > the RFC5322.From header and put in there the list's own email
> > > address while retaining the original poster's descriptive name?
> > I see (*) that mailman already has an option for the mailing list
> > address to take ownership of the RFC5322.From header (see "Hide the
> > sender of a message, replacing it with the list address" in section
> > "Spam-specific posting filters"):
> > http://staff.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html
> > 
> > (*) Although I'm not really sure if that is a Mailman general
> > feature, or some local feature implemented just in Aurora
> > University's installation of Mailman.  
> > 
> > Also, I see that in the Mailman Wishlist it is said "Allow admins
> > to control and set individual headers, adding, removing, or
> > overriding those in the original message (sometimes very useful,
> > but could be dangerous!)":
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/todo.html    
> > 
> > Therefore it looks like we are already half way there.
> > 
> > So, imagine a lists subscriber who sends email to a mailing list
> > with this RFC5322.From header: 
> > 
> >   From: "Sam Spade" <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Then the mailing list software would rewrite the RFC5322.From
> > header when forwarding the email to all its subscribers to look
> > like this:  
> > 
> >   From: "Mailman-Sam Spade" <[email protected]>
> > 
> > And now, imagine this behaviour becomes the default for the
> > majority of mailing list software... 
> 
> and then have all out-of-office replies etc. being bounced back to the
> list...
> 
> /rolf

Out-Of-Office replies are DSN and therefore should have a blank sender. No 
mailing list should accept posts with a blank sender. So I see no problem there.

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