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Re: [ietf-dkim] Lists "BCP" draft available

2010-05-24 16:45:08
On 5/24/10 1:41 PM, Steve Atkins wrote:

 On May 24, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote:

Not at all.  If we can agree that lists should reject discardable
mail out of self defense, that's a good point to add to the BCP.

 Refusing signups from those domains is probably a bit extreme,
 though.

Providing immediate feedback regarding a domain likely to cause 
recipients to miss their conversation should reduce the number of 
subsequent support issues.  Otherwise, lost conversations will likely 
generate complaints requiring detailed analysis to resolve.  Refusals 
for either "all" or "discardable" when the list is known to invalidate 
Author Domain signatures ensures list participants receive full 
conversations.

 If the recipient is rejecting mail from the list, then the list
 should stop attempting to send mail to that recipient. It should not
 try and guess why the mail is no longer wanted.

 We really don't want people to use ADSP (or, much worse, DKIM) as an
 excuse for not handling bounces nor for sending unwanted email.

The "discardable" assertion does NOT mean a mailing list will see 
rejections.  Only the "all" assertion ensures this level of feedback.  
This is why it remains important to have "all" refused whenever 
"discardable" is discarded.   The concept of "discardable" was to offer 
just this type of excuse.

-Doug


 Cheers, Steve

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