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Eric Hughes writes:

Eric> Marc R. suggests that we standardize on a header field Eric> to indicate that a message was anonymous. Eric> I suggest "Anon-Sender:". There's already a "Sender:" Eric> field in RFC-822, indicating who sent the message, as Eric> separate from who wrote the message. The "Anon-Sender:" Eric> field should contain an email address for the maintainer Eric> of the remailer. I think that's certainly a viable idea. Of course, the Sender: field is more honored in the breach than the observance by many mailers. Another thing to remember is "Errors-To:" which can save a lot of grief when handling bounces. Eric> Why? To facilitate complaints. :-) It would warm my heart to see questions like this come up at IETF meetings. Keep up the good work. --Strat