How about:

"I sign all email, and respectfully suggest that the risk of harm due to 
accepting unsigned email is greater than the risk of deleting all email 
transported through any body or signature altering gateways that cannot be 
otherwise authenticated"


I don't see mail forwarders as a real problem here. A mail forwarder 
relationship is by consent of the recipient or the mail should be tossed 
anyway. Since it is by consent of the recipient the mail forwarder is logically 
a part of the recipient mail infrastructure and the whole 'problem' of modified 
messages is irrelevant.

Again: we are building a spring here, not a mousetrap.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Farrell
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 3:11 PM
> To: Thomas A. Fine
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] SSP and mailing lists
> 
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> This isn't really directed at you, but I've wondered each 
> time someone has said something like:
> 
> Thomas A. Fine wrote:
> > "I sign all email, and do NOT permit email through any body or 
> > signature altering gateways"
> 
> I've no idea how a sending domain could enforce the "do NOT permit"
> there. Neither in practice, nor in principle. Does anyone? 
> (This may just be my own ignorance of course, I don't claim 
> to be a mail
> expert.)
> 
> If its unenforceable, then I don't see why anyone would 
> bother making the statement.
> 
> Stephen.
> 
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