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Re: [ietf-dkim] RFC4871bis

2009-01-27 13:28:37
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
When you have a large, faceless mass of users (say at a huge consumer
ISP), all subject to the same outbound filtering norms, the identity
or the individual reputation of the actual user who emitted the
message is, frankly, irrelevant.

It's irrelevant for purposes of spam filtering, but not for the equally 
valid purpose of "is this message really from my grandma?"

(Or, more accurately, "is this message really from my grandma's email address?")

-- 
J.D. Falk
Return Path Inc
http://www.returnpath.net/
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