Douglas Otis wrote:

>> 1) I always sign, but I also know that I send email through
>>    relays that will break the signature.  If you, as a
>>    receiver, reject legitimate email due to broken/missing
>>    signatures, it is your fault and I'll place the blame on
>>    you.
[...]
>> In theory, a receiver of case 1) signing can use the "I sign
>> all" information, along with other information the receiver
>> knows about the source of the email (is it a known mailing
>> list? etc.) to make a reasonable guess about whether a
>> broken/missing signature is a good spam indicator or not.
[...]
> defining these states should probably exclude who is at
> blame for mail accepted or blocked.

+1  Receivers might not know some mailing-lists, consider known
lists as bad, etc.  For receivers with an empty white-list case
1 and 2 are very similar.  And rejecting is better than "tag as
suspicious" (which in essence means "let the users delete this
unread")

> Not damaging signatures at the MDA would be most important

A wannabe-MDA damaging signatures, stripping header fields, or
not reporting the Return-Path is IMHO a gateway to lala-land.

Frank


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