[ietf-dkim] What can we ask mailing lists to do?

> may I suggest we stop here for a moment and get back to the original
> question, which in essence was: should a 1st signer DKIM signature be
> preserved 'coûte que coûte' when a message is handled by a MLM, or not.
The answer is yes, sure, but that's the same answer I'd offer if you asked 
if spammers should set the evil bit (RFC 3514) when sending their mail.
As others have noted, list software does what it does, list managers do 
what they do, and the chances that they will do anything we ask drop 
radically as we make more demands on them.
I think it's reasonable to encourage them to put a list signature on 
outgoing mail.  It'll probably help them get the list mail delivered, and 
in the common case that the MLM uses some other program as its MTA, some 
tweak to the MTA will likely be adequate, so they won't have to mess with 
the MLM's configuration.  (I speak from experience here.)  Beyond that, we 
can make suggestions, but we've dropped off the cliff.
R's,
John

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