Rand Wacker writes:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:
The real problem with DK is that it doesn't survive existing mailing
lists though -- it is common practice to add a few lines to the bottom
of a mail as it's sent to a list, and that practice isn't going to
change any time soon. We really need to use an algorithm which allows
the recipient to locate the original content and verify it, rather than
just breaking.
We should think non-spoofable ways around this , but in the long run, if
the mailing list changes the message it should re-sign. Hell I'm in favor
of the mailling list re-signing just because I want to be able to reliably
whitelist the mail list and not have to whitelist every single person who
might post to it.
While we're at it, we might make a strong statement about
world hunger too... I'm rather incredulous that people have
such a cavalier attitude about a major and important use of
email: mailing lists. Telling them to have a flag day will
be about as successful as telling anybody else to have a
flag day. Our goal is to be success here, right? Major
breakage on trivially common cases is *not* a success
vector. We can't provide for every mangler out there, but
that doesn't give us license to ignore all of them. If we
get to the 80/20 rule, we've done as best we can. But
ignoring, oh say, Yahoo Groups is just not an option.
Mike