ietf-smtp
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [ietf-smtp] DKIM and DMARC, Email explained from first principles

2021-05-26 22:28:59


--On Wednesday, May 26, 2021 16:36 -0400 Nathaniel Borenstein
<nsb(_at_)guppylake(_dot_)com> wrote:

But I believe I made my point clear: that (the same) people
can end up using
the DKIM in exactly the opposite manner, for the simple
reason that they see
DKIM used more by unwanted mail, than not,

It seems to me you can make the same claim for almost any
feature of email (or anything else) that is used by both the
good and bad guys.  "Most of the mail we receive that uses
multipart/related comes from good/bad guys, so I will/won't
block it."  The fact that others are doing things stupidly
isn't a good reason for the rest of us not to do them
intelligently.  If it were, it would be time to give up on
email altogether.

FWIW, a very strong +1.

IMO, we should be specifying thing to work in the best way
possible.  I suspect we could probably do a better job of
explaining decisions and the tradeoffs that went into them so as
to reduce the odds that good people will make bad decisions in
the hope of avoiding the evildoers.  Explaining particular
decisions will probably serve us better, at least with those who
want to Do the Right Thing than taking positions that are too
easily interpreted as "because we said so".  

best,
   john

_______________________________________________
ietf-smtp mailing list
ietf-smtp(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-smtp

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>