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. _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
