To: John Beck <jbeck@eng.sun.com>
Cc: John C Klensin <klensin@mci.net>, drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Draft 07 comments 
In-Reply-To: John Beck's message of "Wed, 03 Jun 1998 11:51:58 -0700."
References: <199806031851.LAA08157@opal.eng.sun.com> 
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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 08:01:23 +1000
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From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>

    Date:        Wed, 03 Jun 1998 11:51:58 -0700
    From:        John Beck <jbeck@eng.sun.com>
    Message-ID:  <199806031851.LAA08157@opal.eng.sun.com>

  | I suggest adding:
  | 
  | 	Note: many systems save the envelope return address ("MAIL FROM:") in
  | 	a pseudo-header known as the Unix From line.  This is not the same as
  | 	the "From" field of the message.

Please, no, no thanks.   If anything is needed at all, a simple reference
to 822bis to be more explicit what "From field" means would do, or perhaps
change (in the original)

	the "From" field of the message is unaffected
to
	the "From" field of the message header is unaffected

(and maybe add an 822bis explicit ref to that as well).   Alternatively,
a more explicit reference, along the lines of

	in particular, no addresses present in the 822bis header
	are affected.

(or all addresses in the 822bis header are unaffected).   Return Path
will be affected of course, but Return-Path isn't supposed to be there yet.

The Unix 'From ' thing isn't even a pseudo-header - not even using the
common use of "header" to mean "field", it is a separator no more, no less.

kre