HELP!

[[e-mail]]

Friends,

Recently a member of this community, call him [e-mail], sent out
an email message that included at the end a copy of a message I had
sent to the IETF list.  Joe's message had the following form (doctored
only to protect Joe's identify):

    From [e-mail] Fri Aug  6 13:40:50 1993
    Resent-Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
    Resent-Date:  Fri, 06 Aug 93 14:21:26 EDT
    Resent-From: [e-mail]
    Resent-To: [e-mail]
    ate: Fri, 6 Aug 1993 10:28:16 -0700
     Sender:[e-mail]
    Sender: [e-mail]
    From: [e-mail]
    To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
    Subject: Internet growth models
    Cc: [e-mail]
    Content-Length: 2344
    X-Lines: 46

    <Joe's message>

    <A copy of the body of my message>



My name was in the FROM field (and my Sun mailer thought the message
was from me)!  When I protested to Joe that he was improperly
pretending to be me, he said,

                                             ... "I use Rice Mail
   and the Columbia Mailer.  They've behaved this way for years.
   I am not an email guru, and since you're at ISI you're a lot
   closer to the gurus than I am -- perhaps you are considered one
   yourself -- but I seriously doubt that either of these is not conforming
   to RFC822.  The Resent-From field is what I've always seen as the name of
   the forwarder, not the original sender.

   "Resent-from" is a real RFC 822 field:

   resent-authentic =
                 =   "Resent-From"      ":"   mailbox

   This is often a source of confusion for mailing list users, when
   their software honors the "Sender" field on a reply, but in 8
   years of sending mail exactly the way I did this time -- forwarding
   a quote to a mailing list -- I've never run into this sort of flak.

   I cannot answer for what your "mailer" is doing.  I think you mean
   your mail program (message user agent), not your mailer (message
   transfer agent), but please tell me how the behavior of Rice Mail
   or the Columbia Mailer doesn't conform to RFC822."


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Note that he DID NOT just forward ("resend") my message, he wrote his
own message and appended the text of my message.

Isn't this wierd?  If so, how can it have gone unnoticed for so long?

Bob Braden