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Re: more hand waving about mailing lists

2004-12-06 09:42:42

 > We don't need to know all possible ways. We know that by far the most
 > common is the addition of a few lines of text, and IIM can already cope
 > with that. That's enough for us, I think. The remaining breakage should
 > be very uncommon.

And... re-mailers can change their behavior to be signature
friendly too. Which ought to be encouraged for S/MIME, etc
anyway.

How long has S/MIME been around?  More than six years.  How many lists,
remailers, etc. have adjusted to be friendly to S/MIME?  None that I can
think of.

It's a really bad idea to expect the installed base to change any time
soon to adapt to a proposed standard.  It's a guaranteed ticket to
failure.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet 
for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.


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