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Re: [Uta] Eric Rescorla's Discuss on draft-ietf-uta-smtp-require-tls-07: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 28 February 2019 16:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Uta] Eric Rescorla's Discuss on draft-ietf-uta-smtp-require-tls-07: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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In article <CALaySJKdQziPJerfW9RJ_tExytaESjmfNMysRduYJ93z=kuyAg@mail.gmail.com> you write:
>system requiring TLS for that message.  My experience with working in
>organizations that use such markings is that they overuse them: the
>sending human doesn't actually determine the sensitivity; rather, the
>sending human becomes used to putting "Top Secret" on nearly
>everything, or "Confidential and Privileged", in the case of lawyers,
>on absolutely everything including, "Let's have lunch."

This is why I have never thought this thing makes sense.  It's just
another bit of unenforcable threatening boilerplate that any sensible
recipient will ignore.  As Jim knows, I've already implemented it in
my MTA with that interpretation in mind.

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John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

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