On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 11:07 AM Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2/4/23 11:02 AM, Evan Burke wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 10:15 AM Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Marketing email probably does. Whether it's spam or not is often in the
>> eye of the beholder.
>>
>
> Having spent some time in the industry, I can tell you that a significant
> majority of marketing email service providers will deliver a unique
> message, with a unique signature, for each individual recipient. DKIM
> replay, in its most problematic current form, repeats one signature, often
> millions of times or more. Even a very approximate count of h= or bh=
> hashes can be a useful signal to distinguish direct vs. replayed
> signatures.
>
> As I'm sure there are occasional cases where non-replay mail may re-use
> the same signature a substantial number of times, I suspect any potential
> mechanism based on this would need to be optional on both the signer and
> validator side, requiring no changes to existing infrastructure unless a
> signer or validator is interested in addressing this type of DKIM replay.
> Seems like that could satisfy the people seeking a solution, and those
> interested in avoiding any breaking changes.
>
>
> I get tons of mail that's just the same blast to everybody. The larger
> point is that we can't preclude that use case especially from a standards
> standpoint.
>

I agree with that larger point, and I noted that in my second sentence
above.
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