On Thursday 25 January 2007 17:19, Eric Allman wrote: > --On January 20, 2007 3:59:33 AM +0100 Frank Ellermann
> > - 6.3 > > "SHOULD NOT reject" because that "could cause severe > > interoperability problems" is plain nonsense. Accepting > > mail tagged as "suspicious" will cause severe problems > > because tagged mail will be most likely deleted without > > further checks later. OTOH "reject" is a clean decision > > at the border MX. > > I think this one requires further discussion before I can change it. > This has been in pretty much since the beginning, and it's come up in > discussions several times, and so far as I can recall you're the > first one to disagree with it. That could be because no one has > thought about it before, or could be because the WG feels it should > remain as-is. > I'm glad Frank brought this up. I think he is completely correct. Reject gives clear feedback to the sender. Filtering into never reviewed spam buckets or even dropping mail does cause severe interoperability problems on an ongoing basis. Let's not have more of it. Scott K _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
