ietf-dkim
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [ietf-dkim] New canonicalizations

2011-05-18 04:43:45

On 17 May 2011, at 20:02, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:


Based on what I see, one SWAG is that the "good" intention people are
using the defaults or relaxed/simple,  and spammers tend to use
relaxed/relaxed as the reduced restraint.   By far, in my samplings,
the largest group are spammers using relaxed/relaxed.

According to what we have, the biggest users of "relaxed/relaxed" are the 
large mailbox providers like Gmail and Yahoo and other legitimate senders, 
not spammers.  The top 20, for example:

These aren't contradictory. If spammers are spreading their load across large 
numbers of domains, then it's entirely feasible that top 1000 signing domains 
are not spammers, but that spammers collectively are (or will one day be) 
responsible for over 50% of signatures. I don't know whether that's the case 
though.

-- 
Ian Eiloart
Postmaster, University of Sussex
+44 (0) 1273 87-3148


_______________________________________________
NOTE WELL: This list operates according to 
http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html