> Help me out here John, where exactly is that "silently drop" section? I
> see the discarding part but the "drop silently" part seems to be a bit
> silent.

Sheesh, Mike.  Discard is an ordinary English word which I used in its 
ordinary English sense.  I suppose there might be people who say 
"Attention! I have thrown a used coffee cup into the wastebasket!" each 
time they do so, but I hope I don't know any of them.

> Ooh, "we're sending you this useless notification instead of what might 
> have been spam".  Just when we thought that had been stamped out.

> So you have decided to join the group that claims DKIM and ADSP are
> about fighting spam rather than being an authentication mechanism.

If by fighting spam, you mean not sending mail which is certain to be 
useless and unwanted, I guess I plead guilty.

If we can turn our minds back a decade or so, you may recall that some 
spam filters replaced a suspect message with an announcement saying "so 
and so sent you spam, which we caught, and we're sending you this message 
instead."  We all got a zillion of them.  Did you ever do anything with 
any of those messages other than delete them?  I certainly didn't.

If you don't trust a filtering technique to work, don't use it.  But for 
heaven sakes, don't excuse broken spam filters by sending more spam.

R's,
John
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