In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Oct 1996 14:48:10 MDT."
	     <Pine.SUN.3.93.961004143647.7996D-100000@alumni.cs.colorado.edu> 
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 21:19:28 -0400
From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Reply-To: moore@cs.utk.edu
To: Tony Apuzzo <apuzzo@alumni.cs.colorado.edu>
CC: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>, thinkpad@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: List Admin Stuff 
Message-Id: <9610050119.AA01225@ig.cs.utk.edu>

> I would prefer setting "Sender: owner-thinkpad@cs.utk.edu" if a user
> wants to get a direct reply, they should set Reply-To.  Using "Sender:"
> is what all my other mailing lists use.

Sender is supposed to contain the address of the original sender 
of the message.  RFC 822 allows for the possibility of a message
sent on behalf of someone else, or on behalf of multiple people.
In those cases, Sender is the address of the person who actually
sends the message, while From is the address(es) of the person/people
on whose behalf the message is sent.

Yes, a lot of lists do misuse Sender so that it contains the address 
of the list maintainer.  I refuse to contribute to this degradation 
of the protocol.

[replies directed to me; this isn't on topic for the list]

Keith