On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 18:16 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Neal Groothuis wrote: > > > >Mailman is not the originator of the message, so it should > >not be tampering with the From: or Sender: fields at all. > > > This is arguably not true. Mailman may add a list header and/or list > footer to the body of the message as well as potentially filtering or > scrubbing various MIME parts. The message sent by Mailman can be > significantly different from the one originally received.
The copy that Mailman sends is almost always modified in some way, and given the ambiguities in the standards, I think it's defensible to say that Mailman is the originator of the messages received by list members. -Barry
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