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[ietf-dkim] Mailing list reality check

2010-09-19 22:51:09
I think these all should be non-controversial.  Let me know if I'm 
mistaken.

1.  The overall amount of mail sent through discussion lists is small 
relative to direct (person-to-person) mail or to broadcast (one-to-many) 
mail.

2.  Lists do a good enough job of managing the mail that they forward that 
recipients generally do not worry about spam filtering mail from lists to 
which they've subscribed.  (Bozo filtering of legit but stupid messages 
doesn't count as spam filtering.)

3.  The most common way for spam to get into a list in recent years is for 
a subscriber's account to be stolen by a spammer who sends spam to 
addresses in the account's address book.

R's,
John

PS: I'm attempting to describe the way lists work now, not the way they 
might work at a hypothetical future time.
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