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

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