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Re: [ietf-dkim] MLMs and signatures again

2011-05-26 16:13:09

On May 26, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Hector Santos wrote:

Steve Atkins wrote:

In my experience with traditional discussion MLMs (which is the situation 
we're talking about) if I trust the MLM, I generally don't care about 
who the participants are.

If by traditional, you mean the members are vetted with subscription
and confirmation, then this tends to be true.  But when not, when the
list or any group forum is anonymous in nature, history has told us
its get corrupted with junk and most people tend to dislike it.

In that case the reputation of the MLM is poor, and I don't want to
receive email from it. I still don't care about who the participants
are.

The idea that people might sign up for a mailing list full of junk,
and hope that their spam filters / reputation engine will magically
pull the occasional gem out of it seems pretty unlikely. And that's
the premise behind there being value in tracking the reputation
of original authors in the case of their email being re-sent by a
MLM.

Cheers,
  Steve

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