DKIM is something that lets a sender say "my domain sent this message".
If you went out and asked 20 non-technical people -- enough to make an
interesting sample of the population -- what they think your above
sentence means, I predict that all 20 would respond that the semantics
were along the lines of "someone in that domain wrote the message"
Yes; I was trying to be very terse, and obviously succeeded too well.
The wording I usually use is "my domain put this message onto the
Internet", usually clarifying that it could be an initial "put" or a relay.
rather than something like "something (person/software) related to that
domain *handled* the message."
I like "handled". Of course, I'm sure we'd get 20 different versions of
what THAT means too, so....
Given the predisposition folks have towards such misunderstandings, it
well might be worth a distinct section of text (with a table of contents
entry) that anticipates the problem and discusses it.
...that's probably worth doing, yes.
Thanks, Dave, for volunteering to write the text. Post here and send to
Eric when it's ready.
Barry
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