Thanks for the summary, Stephen.

Stephen Farrell wrote:
>
> - There are arguments that supporting both original and
> mail-list signatures would be useful, but there are
> also difficulties with this in particular adding the
> mail-list signature will often break the original
> signature. (If the mail-list signature only covers
> the content and certain headers like List-Id then
> this might work better).
I didn't find the original mention of this, but I'm not clear on why
adding a mail-list signature would break the original.  It's just an
additional header field, and unless the original signature was
constructed to prevent that (by including DKIM-Signature in the h=
headers) there shouldn't be a problem.  What might break the original
signatures is the modifications to the message that necessitated the
mail-list signature.
>
> - Some particular headers may cause difficulty when a
> mailing list is re-signing an originally signed message (e.g.
> "Reply-To", "Subject").
>
> [http://mipassoc.org/pipermail/ietf-dkim/2006q1/001821.html]
I didn't get quite this meaning from Frank's message.  I don't know what
the difficulty is; the list just has to make any modifications it's
going to make before it re-signs.  Like Frank, I would prefer if lists
didn't do a lot of things they currently do to messages.  Nevertheless,
I realize that some lists are advertising-supported, so it's a behavior
we're going to have to deal with.

-Jim
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