On Sep 10, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Charles Lindsey wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:15:37 +0100, Hector Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think you need to better appreciate and understand how fundamental >> the "Message" From field for any forms of communications and/or mail >> networks is. It would be a radical change to open up this door and >> "Pandora box" to make it the norm and mindset that a From: is >> unreliable. Not saying it is not prone to abusive, but fundamentally, >> when people believe in the message, they also make that natural >> trusted tie to the author of the message. > > Yes, but nobody is trying to change that. We seem to be agreed that what a > mailing list sends is, from some POV, a "new" message, and so logically a > new "From:" is not wholly out of order.
What's the benefit to this, though, other than obscuring the original author? Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
