Re: [ietf-822] WSJ/gmail/ML, was a permission to... (off-topic)

[Miles Fidelman <[e-mail]>]

S Moonesamy wrote:
> Hi Miles,
> At 18:19 05-05-2014, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> I haven't actually dug into the details of how Outlook does things, 
>> but... does not RFC5322's series of resent- headers start to provide 
>> a direction for standardizing mailing list use of header fields?
>
> I read the relevant text as meaning that the "resent-" headers are 
> added when a message is reintroduced.  I prefer to leave it to other 
> people to interpret what that means.  There are a few List- headers 
> which have been standardized for mailing lists.
>

Yes, I understand that.

My contention is that:
1. mailing list software performs a relatively stable, well defined, set 
of functions (re-distribution, subject tagging, adding headers and 
footers, etc.), but,
2. those functions are not performed in a standardized way, and,
3. if those functions we're standardized, a lot of things would become 
easier - including, perhaps, improved interoperation of lists with 
things like DMARC, better list-aware mail clients

It strikes me that the RFC-5322 resent-headers, which don't seem to be 
used much, might be a good starting point for such standardization - for 
a start, by getting past the overloading of the From: header that causes 
so many problems.

Miles

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