Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!POSTEL@USC-ISIF.ARPA From: POSTEL@USC-ISIF.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: multiple senders ? Message-ID: <609@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 14:29:06 EDT Article-I.D.: hou3c.609 Posted: Tue Jun 5 14:29:06 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jun-84 08:07:27 EDT Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 13 To: header-people@MIT-MC In the RFC 822 world a message has one sender. The "from" is the author or authors of the message. The "sender" is the clerk that pushed the final button that sent the message. When a message is forwarded it is really a new message and should have (at least) additional header fields added to indicate who did the forwarding and when (resent-sender, resent-from, resent-date). If two different people (say, Fred and Sam) get copies of a message and both forward it to a third person (say, Joe), then the third person (Joe) will get two copies -- but, he (Joe) will be able to see when and by whom each copy was forwarded. --jon. -------