>> If the signature is valid *and* the signer has a good
>> reputation, then a delivery agent might do something nice to the
>> message.  If it sees a lot of cruddy mail with my signature,
>
>The issue is not your 'signature' but your d= domain name.  That's where
>the reputation assessment is supposed to lie.

If anyone else found this obvious point confusing, I apologize.

>If we think and talk in those terms, then the question of how strong the
>glue needs to be needs to be made in the context of real or likely
>efforts at pulling the name off of a legitimate message and affixing it
>to an illegitimate one.

Why would that be the verifier's concern rather than the signer's?  If
for some (perhaps good, perhaps bad) reason I decide to use weak
signatures, why wouldn't the hit to my reputation be an adequate
remedy?

R's,
John

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