On 19/Oct/10 04:55, John Levine wrote:
>>There's a strong correlation between badly structured emails (SMTP,
>>MIME, HTML) and email that the recipient doesn't want to see.
> 
> You're right, but I think that's largely orthogonal to DKIM.  If a
> message has a good signature from a credible signer, I expect I'd want
> to show it to the user even if it had structure problems.  I'd like to
> make the trust model as simple as possible, preferably
> 
>    good signature ->  good message
> 
> rather than
> 
>    good signature + tidy SMTP + correct headers + unobjectionable HTML
>      + favorable phase of moon ->  good message

+1.  That's why I don't think much of "Jim's SHOULD language",
recommending stiff syntax validation in response to a threat whose
only known trait is technical feasibility.

Verifiers are already authorized to react "with extreme skepticism".
We can better their diagnostic capabilities, but cannot recommend a
therapy that we never tried.
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