From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36426 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sender header? Date: 25 May 2001 14:23:05 -0400 Sender: prj@multivac.cwru.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172012 8508 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:46:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:46:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 18081 invoked by alias); 25 May 2001 18:23:06 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18076 invoked from network); 25 May 2001 18:23:06 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 May 2001 18:23:06 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29255 invoked by uid 500); 25 May 2001 18:23:27 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?q?("Bj=F8rn?= Mork"'s message of "25 May 2001 20:01:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 20 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36426 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36426 "Bj=F8rn Mork" writes: > 6.2. Sender >=20 > The Sender header specifies the mailbox of the entity which actually > sent this article, if that entity is different from that given in the > From header or if more than one address appears in the From header. > This header SHOULD NOT appear in an article unless the sender is > different from the author. This header is appropriate for use by > automatic article posters. The content syntax makes use of syntax > defined in [MESSFOR]. ... > I.e. they propose changing the definition of the sender field in news > to mean the same as in mail. Would make things easier IMHO. Yeah, that makes sense. One wonders about an automatic poster, though - an email address used to designate it would probably just forward to the person ultimately responsible for its postings anyway. paul