On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Stephen Farrell
<[email protected]>wrote:
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> On 10/24/2013 01:47 AM, Richard Barnes wrote:
> > I can sort of see the dogfood / Right Thing To Do argument.  But it seems
> > kind of silly to waste the bits / cycles encrypting things whose entire
> > point is to be public.
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> Not everything that goes in or out of ietf.org via
> SMTP is public. See ombudspersonage discussion for
> example. Or nomcom. For most lists, yes, this isn't
> much of a deal over and above dogfood consumption.
>

Ok, fair enough.  Those instances had slipped my mind.  Perhaps this a good
illustration of why turning on TLS is the Right Thing To Do -- even if you
think everything transiting your mail server is public, there's probably
something you've forgotten.  :)

--Richard




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