INTERNET-DRAFT                               Charles H. Lindsey
Usenet Format Working Group                  University of Manchester
                                             July 2001

5.2. From

5.2.  From
   The From header contains the electronic address(es), and possibly the
   full name, of the article's poster(s). The content syntax makes use
   of syntax defined in [RFC 2822], subject to the following revised
   definition of local-part.

      From-content        = mailbox-list
      addr-spec           = local-part "@" domain
      local-part          = dot-atom / strict-quoted-string

        NOTE: This syntax ensures that the local-part of an addr-spec is
        restricted to pure US-ASCII (and is thus in strict compliance
        with [RFC 2822]), whilst allowing any UTF-8 character to be used
        in a preceding quoted-string containing the poster's full name.
        If some future extension to the Mail protocols should relax this
        restriction, one would expect the Netnews protocols to follow.

   The mailbox in the From-content SHOULD be a valid address, belonging
   to the poster(s) of the article, or person or agent on whose behalf
   the post is being sent (see the Sender header, 6.2).  When, for
   whatever reason, the poster does not wish to include such an
   adddress, the From-content SHOULD then be an address which ends in
   the top level domain of ".invalid" [RFC 2606].

        NOTE: Since such addresses ending in ".invalid" are
        undeliverable, user agents Ought to warn any user attempting to
        reply to them and Ought Not, in any case, to attempt to deliver
        to them (since that would be pointless anyway).  Whether or not
        a valid address can subsequently be extracted from such an
        address falls outside the scope of this standard (though it
        would be pointless to use a disguise so easily penetrable).

        Be warned also that some injecting agents that have
        authentication information may choose to replace the From-
        content based upon the authenticated identity.

Diffs to previous draft

--- {draft-04}	Wed Jul 11 21:55:19 2001
+++ {draft-05}	Wed Jul 11 21:55:19 2001
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
5.2.  From
    The From header contains the electronic address(es), and possibly the
-   full name, of the article's author(s). The content syntax makes use
-   of syntax defined in [MESSFOR], subject to the following revised
+   full name, of the article's poster(s). The content syntax makes use
+   of syntax defined in [RFC 2822], subject to the following revised
    definition of local-part.
 
       From-content        = mailbox-list
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 
         NOTE: This syntax ensures that the local-part of an addr-spec is
         restricted to pure US-ASCII (and is thus in strict compliance
-        with [MESSFOR]), whilst allowing any UTF-8 character to be used
-        in a preceding quoted-string containing the author's full name.
+        with [RFC 2822]), whilst allowing any UTF-8 character to be used
+        in a preceding quoted-string containing the poster's full name.
         If some future extension to the Mail protocols should relax this
         restriction, one would expect the Netnews protocols to follow.