On May 24, 2010, at 5:27 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote:

>> We have one concrete failure scenario, in which someone who publishes
>> dkim=discardable sends mail to a MLM that as usual breaks the signature,
>> a  subscriber's mail system carefully follows the ADSP and rejects that
>> mail,  causing the subscriber to be bounced off the list.  (This really
>> happened,  on an IETF list.)  The advice is obvious a) put a shim in
>> front of your  MLM to reject discardable mail and b) the usual advice not
>> to use ADSP at  all, but it definitely needs publishing.
> 
> The other piece of advice should be to actually discard, rather than 
> rejecting, discardable email. That would have protected the subscriber from 
> automatic unsubscription.

The advice should be to discard the mail vs. bouncing it back to the MLM.  That 
solves the use case of subscribers being auto-unsubscribed to mail lists 
without undermining all the other use cases that led the IETF to standardize 
ADSP in the first place.

-- Brett
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