Just on one point, for us to consider:

> Personally, I think mailing lists changing From has horrible UX and I don't
> really think anyone disagrees.  It's only advantages are that it's relatively
> easy to implement in a Mailing List Manager (MLM) and it solves the entire
> DMARC problem for a specific mailing list without needing anyone else to 
> change
> anything.  I understand the appeal.

I think Scott is right that we all agree that rewriting From mitigates
problems that mailing lists have with DMARC, but at a significant cost
in usability.

I think it would be bad to publish From-rewriting as a standard.

But here:  I think it is reasonable, perhaps advisable, to
informationally document From-rewriting as a mechanism that is in use,
and to include in that documentation a clear exposition of the
problems that it causes.  Why not get those horrible UX issues down on
paper so that when someone decides to deploy it they are better
informed?  Perhaps we can lead people to take steps to reduce the UX
challenges (for example, rewriting the way the IETF is doing it at
least addresses the issue of knowing who sent the message, and how to
reply to the actual sender, as compared to a rewrite directly to the
mailing list address).

Doesn't that make sense?

Barry

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