At 16:43 20-02-2008, Thom O'Connor wrote:
>However, it is very important that the terminology in use here is
>accurate and appropriate. The global messaging user-base wants and
>expects guidance on implementation that should be clear and direct. The
>truth of the matter is, the discarding of email should be expressly
>discouraged. No message should ever be discarded - RFC 2821 suggests
>this though does not explicitly disallow or discourage it:
Discarding of email should be discouraged except if "there is very
high confidence that the messages are seriously fraudulent or
otherwise inappropriate".
Proponents of anti-spam are in favor of this feature as it works for
them; i.e. they can determine that the message is unwanted. We have
the usual set of users who will implement this feature without
understanding the implications.
>If we (where "we" is the email industry here that seeks to maintain and
>even expand the usefulness of email itself, rather than seeing our users
>resort to making a phone call or using IM when they need a "sure" method
>of communication) should be clear about this then, one appropriate value
Agreed.
If the group wants to keep discardable, I suggest a change in Section 3.3:
"discardable All mail from the domain is signed with an Author
Signature. Furthermore, if a message arrives without a valid
Author Signature due to modification in transit, submission via
a path without access to a signing key, or other reason, the
domain encourages the recipient(s) to discard it instead of
sending a "bounce".
Regards,
-sm
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