Re: [lamps] Proposed addition of header protection to the LAMPS charter

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>3) If it results in an RFC, would you implement?

Not to be an old grouch or anything, but anything that affects mail
user interfaces is dismayingly hard to do well and easy to do in ways
that nobody wants to use.  When we were looking at anti-DMARC hacks
for the IETF mailing lists I wrote a mail reflector that wrapped
messages in various ways and sent them back so people could see how
they looked in their mail programs.  The only thing that was
consistent from one MUA to another was that they looked awful.

I think header protection is a fine idea, but without some code to try
and see if it's usable, we're far too likely to end up with yet
another paper spec.

R's,
John