Hi,

Le 21/06/2020 à 21:44, Douglas E. Foster a écrit :
> 
> There is no legal corollary for "largely-unmodified".  [...]

Then what? An overwhelming majority of users need e-mail for day-to-day
communication, not for binding legal contracts. "Largely-unmodified" as
mailing-lists have been doing it for 40 years is good enough (we usually
don't hear authors complaining that they were impersonated).

People who need a high-integrity validation for each and every message
before reading it are the minority. The rest of us would rather keep our
communication possibilities unimpaired, even if it means dealing with a
bit of spam and use cryptography or out-of-band checks for important
business.

Not to say that DMARC's validation is not valuable per se. But asking
mailing-list (or other) users to jump through hoops to simply
communicate as they have for 40 years is incredibly arrogant.

Cheers,
Baptiste

P.S.: and no, "then don't use DMARC" cannot be the answer. Some time
down the road, it will be forced on us by the large mailhosts, who have
a business interest in curbing spam. So it'd better be done right.

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