Message-Id: <199510040158.VAA26592@wilma.cs.utk.edu>
From: Keith Moore <moore@CS.UTK.EDU>
To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU
cc: moore@CS.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: What's the Sender header for? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 1995 20:31:09 CDT."
             <9510040131.AA13308@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> 
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 21:58:43 -0400
Sender: moore@CS.UTK.EDU

> > I personally feel that Sender should identify the original human
> > sender, and that mailing lists shouldn't change it.  For them to
> > do so removes the ability of a list recipient to see who actually
> > sent the message.  
> 
> In almost all cases, the original human sender is identified by the
> From: header.  In all cases, this MUST identify who authored the
> message.  Is that what you mean by the verb "send"?

The person (or people) who authored the message is not necessarily the 
same as the one person who sent it.  I like to point to section A.2 of 
RFC 822 as examples of the intended use of Sender.

It's true that in almost all cases, one person authors a message
and that same person sends it.  The Sender header is only useful
when this is not the case.

Keith