First, I see nothing wrong with someone writing a draft for netnews, but
this is well beyond this group's scope, IMHO. There are many types of
mail systems, and they all may require some transformations and some
special treatment.
Charles Lindsey wrote:
We don't want the mailing list admin to reject is as being unsigned.
Maybe the gateway should have signed it (quite a good edea that, and
then the SSP and reputation of the gateway would come into play). But
is that sufficient to cover for the lack of a signature by foo.example?
I wonder how much of a real world example this really would be. I think
as a mailing list administrator I'd be quite offended that someone
attempted to gateway in a newsgroup without my permission. If such
gatewaying had my permission, then I could decide to accept such
gatewaying and then choose to ignore the fact that there is no DKIM header.
A more likely case would be where some organization is doing the
gatewaying to and from a LOCAL newsgroup. In such cases, it makes
perfect sense for that gateway to consider signing the message on its
way into email. And it should because it is going to monkey with some
headers that might be previously signed, such as Article-Id and
Newsgroups. What's more, NNTP is 8 bit clean (always has been), so you
may well have to do some monkeying already.
Eliot
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