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Re: [dmarc-ietf] making mail not work for your users, was the endless mailing list silliness

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 20 April 2013 21:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] making mail not work for your users, was the endless mailing list silliness
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>>> Once I can tell the message is verifiably from dmarc@ietf.org, I'm done
>>> caring.
>> 
>> It's got an ietf.org DKIM signature.  What more do you need?
>
> ietf.org signs all sorts of stuff, including messages that turn out to be 
> spam.

True.  It's got an ietf.org signature on a List-ID header, which is 
somewhat more specific to this list.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.

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