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

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com> Sat, 20 April 2013 21:12 UTC

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Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:11:52 -0700
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com>
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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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On 4/20/2013 2:01 PM, John R Levine wrote:
>>>> 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.

that sounds suspicious like claiming that including it in the hash 
equates to validating it contents...

anyhow, the spam that the ietf sends goes /through/ its lists...

d/

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  Dave Crocker
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