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Re: [ietf-dkim] (offtopicish) RFC 4871 Word Cloud

2009-04-19 12:06:19
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Doug Otis 
<doug(_dot_)mtview(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Most email abuse emanates from hundreds of millions of compromised systems.
 Most of these systems have been compromised by browser related exploits.
 Email authentication helps recipients determine whether it might be safe to
run scripts, or whether it might be safe to click on links contained within
emails, or to accept any number of often socially engineered threats.

No sorry. Reputation and reputational analysis of individual emails -
possibly but not entirely tied ot authentication - determines that.

If you go around comparing this to seatbelts on cars, that's a
staggeringly bad analogy.

-srs

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