On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:48 AM, John R. Levine <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Could you explain what you mean by "forge" and "legitimate"? You >>> appear to be saying that mailing lists are doing something sleazy and >>> illegitimate by doing what they've done for the past 40 years, which >>> seems implausible. >> >> That is exactly what I'm saying. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos > > So, if I understand you correctly, when the AARP e-pends an address for me > and sends me spam, it's "legitimate" because they're spamming from their own > domain,
putting aside why they are sending you an email or how they got the email address, in this case the message comes from AARP unmodified. It is FROM AARP. > but when you get mail from the DKIM list you've signed up for it's > not. Wow. mail _from_ a mailing list is not the original message anymore. I know this isn't a popular opinion. Just because something has been done someway for 40 years doesn't make it right. Thus my link to asbestos. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
