On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 11:51:43AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 02 May 2014, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Hmm. Can you elaborate on that? Do you consider that if I sign a > > message and you want to modify it, am I to blame that you can't modify > > it? Or else: If you modify it anyway, am I to blame that the signature > > does not verify anymore? > > You're to blame if you're sending it to a mailing list, and are signing > the body in such a way that footers cannot be added, and have configured > your mail setup such that DKIM headers are mandatory.
That would be only true (if at all) in an "abstract" sense. In the real world, ordinary people do not have the power to make all those choices, and even if they did, I can't imagine someone changing the "signing policy" back and forth depending on the destination of the email. Also, you seem to imply that modifying message bodies is "mandatory" for the list. It's not. It's an optional "feature/bug" that some mailing lists have, but has never been essential to their operation (which is to forward messages to all subscriptors). Actually. Things are actually more complex than you described. For example, it could be that: * a gmail user sends signed emails to the list * a yahoo user just receives them, but he does not post to the list * yahoo servers reject messages having wrong signatures (rightly so, that's what signatures are for) * lists.debian.org sends a message to the yahoo user saying "we are receiving bounces from you". * and finally yahoo user is unsubcribed from the list. Would you put any or all of the "blame" on the gmail user? Absolutely none of the blame on the list server? Note: This is in fact the reason I decided to raise this bug to "normal", as this is what seems to happen here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/2014/04/msg00696.html (A user asks about bounces and he believes to be odd, as he does not post to the list so often). Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
