Re: [Asrg] C/R Interworking Framework

At 10:52 AM -0400 6/5/03, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
>The "FROM" field is the one that will get C/R checked, since that is 
>the mailbox that sent the email. Additionally, the "MAIL FROM" 
>addresses that is used in SMTP is not intended to this purpose, 
>rather it indicates a mailbox to which errors should be sent to. It 
>is perfectly legal and sometimes even recommended in RFC 2821 to use 
><> for the MAIL FROM.

Are you advocating that C/R systems send mail to the From: address 
rather than MAIL FROM?  That strikes me as exceedingly wrong.  MAIL 
FROM is for notification of delivery problems--and that's exactly 
what C/R is.  Furthermore, we've seen on this list what happens when 
a C/R system sends to From: instead of MAIL FROM--everyone who posts 
to the list gets challenged by the person who forgot to whitelist the 
mailing list.  This is the "On Vacation" message problem all over 
again.
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responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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