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RE: [ietf-dkim] SSP and mailing lists

2006-09-12 10:19:47
How about:

"I sign all email, and respectfully suggest that the risk of harm due to 
accepting unsigned email is greater than the risk of deleting all email 
transported through any body or signature altering gateways that cannot be 
otherwise authenticated"


I don't see mail forwarders as a real problem here. A mail forwarder 
relationship is by consent of the recipient or the mail should be tossed 
anyway. Since it is by consent of the recipient the mail forwarder is logically 
a part of the recipient mail infrastructure and the whole 'problem' of modified 
messages is irrelevant.

Again: we are building a spring here, not a mousetrap.

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-dkim-bounces(_at_)mipassoc(_dot_)org 
[mailto:ietf-dkim-bounces(_at_)mipassoc(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Stephen 
Farrell
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 3:11 PM
To: Thomas A. Fine
Cc: ietf-dkim(_at_)mipassoc(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] SSP and mailing lists


Hi Thomas,

This isn't really directed at you, but I've wondered each 
time someone has said something like:

Thomas A. Fine wrote:
"I sign all email, and do NOT permit email through any body or 
signature altering gateways"

I've no idea how a sending domain could enforce the "do NOT permit"
there. Neither in practice, nor in principle. Does anyone? 
(This may just be my own ignorance of course, I don't claim 
to be a mail
expert.)

If its unenforceable, then I don't see why anyone would 
bother making the statement.

Stephen.

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