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Re: Google threatens to break Gmail

2015-10-26 12:11:19
That doesn't mean that an ARC signature chain is a bad idea.  I
have doubts about its effectiveness in practice, but, if it
help, that is great.   But changing the intuitive (and
business-letter-based) semantics of the "From:" field strikes me
as a bad idea ...

It strikes pretty much everyone as a bad idea other than a handful who've drunk too much DMARC koolaid, a group that does *not* include the ARC authors.

The whole point of ARC is that lists do whatever they do now, and add ARC headers for automated parocessing like they added DKIM headers a few years back. None of the headers visible to users are supposed to change.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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