On Aug 9, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Monday, August 09, 2010 04:11:57 pm John R. Levine wrote: >>> Why do you simplify handling of list mail to sorting and filtering, >>> ignoring two other important list handling activities: >>> >>> 1. reading mail >>> 2. responding to mail >> >> Well, OK. Can you offer some non-hypothetical situations where you would >> read or respond to list mail differently if there were extra assurance on >> identity of the list contributor? >> >> Or to put it another way, if someone has put an S/MIME signature on a >> messsage sent through a list, does that affect the way you respond? >> > It's not at all clear to me that the answer to that question is in any way > related to the work of the working group. What would we design differently > if > the answer was yes (or no)?
If a recipients handling of an inbound email from a mailing list varies depending on whether you can authenticate the original author (the >From field) or not, then there may be some value in helping mailing lists tunnel authentication through in a way that allows you to authenticate the original author. If it doesn't, there isn't. If none of the members of this list would handle an inbound email from a mailing list depending on whether they can authenticate the original author or not, nor point at a concrete example of people ding so, that would suggest it's not a common requirement. Which would suggest it's not worth considering how to support it for DKIM, which seems to be at least tangentially related to what we're doing here. Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
