Daniel Liston wrote:
> "on behalf of" is a proper message. Your mailing list mgr (majordomo),
> sends the email to many recipients on behalf of the original "sender".
This response doesn't acknowledge the specific meaning of "on behalf of"
in an Outlook/Exchange environment, or how Microsoft has misused a
standard header to implement it.
"On behalf of" is used to indicate when a message is originated by
person X using person Y's identity -- IN THE CASE where X is designated
by Y as a delegate.
In this case, Microsoft should have done something like setting up an
X-Delegated-To: header or some such, so the intent is clear.
Instead, they co-opted the use of the Sender: header, in a way that
implies that every use of it is a delegation, which it is not.
People should complain to Microsoft to fix this mess.
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