On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:27:01 +0100, John R. Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote:
>> OK. What ADSP adds is the ability to assign reputation to a specific >> email >> claiming to originate from a specific domain. Except for "unknown". > > No, ADSP adds the ability for senders to make unverified assertions about > their signing practices. Unless you already have some knowledge about > the > domain, you have no idea whether it would be useful to believe it. On the contrary, it adds the ability for domain owners to make those asertions. Assuming that the domain owner has control of his own DNS records, those assertions are as reliable as the reputation of the relevant Domain Registrar (you can argue about how reliable that is, if you wish). -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: ...@clerew.man.ac.uk snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html