Since DEMARC we don't know who is authoring list messages anymore. 

I saw a message today sent to a list named "AlmostEverybody". The message 
author did not properly configure their MUA (Verizon webmail) with their proper 
name, so the only identifier is their email address. Which is of course now 
deleted as part of DEMARC compliance. Leaving us with a message and no 
indication of who sent it. The "From" was merely "Via 
almosteveryb...@list.example.com". No name, no author email address. Of course 
no sig either. 

List members are unable to reply off-list to the author, and they don't even 
know who the author is. 

Would it be a reasonable feature request to add the author's name & email 
address as a X-Header? Some of us not only read the headers on a regular basis, 
but we even configure our MUA to display certain message Headers. (My favorites 
are Reply-To, X-Mailer, and User-Agent). 

I'd rather not add the author's email address to the top or bottom of the 
message body, but it seems that some method of identifying the message author 
is in order. Even if depreciated, X-Headers are obviously still in use, and 
better then nothing. At the very least adding one more message header won't 
cause any complaining. 

Thoughts? 

Best, 
 Dave Nathanson
 Mac Medix

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