> On Feb 10, 2016, at 6:37 PM, Roland Turner via dmarc-discuss 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> John Levine wrote:
> 
>> How is this different from everyone's favorite alleged mailing list
>> solution?
>> 
>> From: Foo list on behalf of Jane Smith <[email protected]>
> ...
>> PS: well, other than it's a little more explicit about where the
>> responsibility lies
> 
> That is the difference.
> 
> I'd prefer:
> 
>    From: Foo list [Jane Smith] <[email protected]>
>    CC: Jane Smith <[email protected]>
> 
> as "on behalf of" is a little too verbose but, yes, making sure that the 
> distinction remains generally visible without:
> 
> - becoming extremely inconvenient (private replies become impossible because 
> the author's email address is missing), or
> - violating the principle of least astonishment[1] (wait, the list operator 
> caused my private reply to be routed through his mail-server?)

Given that the important identifier is often the email address (“Which Bob are 
you?”, “Who is your employer?”) I think that any approach that intentionally 
obscures the actual author in that way is less than ideal.

From: Steve Atkins [email protected] <[email protected]>

or 

From: Steve Atkins [email protected] <[email protected]>

or

…

(with Reply-To: to the actual author, ideally, but a Cc: is OK for those who 
have an irrational hatred of that)

Cheers,
  Steve
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