On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:15:37 +0100, Hector Santos <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think you need to better appreciate and understand how fundamental > the "Message" From field for any forms of communications and/or mail > networks is. It would be a radical change to open up this door and > "Pandora box" to make it the norm and mindset that a From: is > unreliable. Not saying it is not prone to abusive, but fundamentally, > when people believe in the message, they also make that natural > trusted tie to the author of the message. Yes, but nobody is trying to change that. We seem to be agreed that what a mailing list sends is, from some POV, a "new" message, and so logically a new "From:" is not wholly out of order. > From: DKIM POST MASTER <[email protected]> > > or > > From: DKIM POST MASTER ON BEHALF OF XYZ <[email protected]> Well the 2nd one is better, and it would be better still to encode the same stuff within the address (e.g by a %-hack). Since MUAs usually display the From, but often not much else, then it is reasonable for it to contain all useful information about where it came from. So it would be useful to know who was the original author, but it is also useful to know that it passed through (and was modified by) the MLM. > > I guess the goal would be to make the resigner a 1st party DKIM > signature with the From domain being mipassoc.org. Yes, especially if he has just destroyed some valid signaturethat was there previously. > > Even if the MLM was allowed to do this for list of this type, do we > now also recommend that MIPASSOC.ORG have a ADSP policy? Whether and how to do such things is at the discretion of the MLM. He does whatever will make his list function smoothly. All we need is some generally accepted conventions so that we do not get arbitrary differences. An informational document is a suitable way to propose such conventions. Later on it might be elevated to a BCP if it becomes widely adopted. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: [email protected] snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
