[ietf-dkim] Re: on the suitability of the From header field

[Arvel Hathcock]

> I strongly disagree.

Help me understand.  You disagree with what?  With the assertion that 
end-users consider the
RFC2822.From as the message sender?

> If end-users today are accustomed to thinking the message was
> sent by RFC2822.From, they will need to berr educated, and
> they may also need better MUAs that make the distinction clear.

That would be nice.  But, that's not something we have the power to achieve. 
I wouldn't even want that job.

> But I don't think most end-users are this naive or incapable of
> understanding the difference. Mailing lists, for example, do not
> follow this convention.  Nor do forwarded messages.  Neither
> one of these seems to result in a great deal of user confusion.

In all these cases the messages have a FROM header.  Look, I just asked my 
wife "Who sent this message?"  She told me "Keith Moore did".  I asked, "How 
do you know that?"  "Because it says so right there" (pointing to the FROM 
in my Outlook Express.  "That's what is says right there."  I asked, "Would 
it change your concept of who sent it if I told you this was a mailing 
list?"  "No."  "What if I said this was a forwarded message?"  "No."  So, 
none of that matters.  What's in the FROM is who sent the message in the 
eyes of email consuming humanity.

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Arvel