John R Levine writes:
If at some future time bad guys do forge mail from subscribers, list
software will adapt again. I don't know how it'll adapt.
And one of the ways that it could adapt is to modify
messages in a signature-friendly way. If there's social
pressure to do so, they'll do so just as surely as they will
sign messages if the incentive is there.
By the way, Yahoo tells me that about 3/4 of their outgoing list mail is
HTML, and I have observed that the HTML mail is all modified in ways that
header copying and byte counts can't handle.
I have running code which deals with the HTML problem that
you sent out the other day.
So it's fortunate that
there's no need for signatures to survive list software, since they can't.
Uh-huh.
Mike