On Aug 2, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim- >> boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Macdonald >> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 10:53 AM >> To: DKIM List >> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Feedback on draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists for >> discussion >> >>> c) A "-1" to the idea of altering From: to cope with ADSP; the reason >> given: >>> "This presumes endpoints will understand a DKIM-related From:-altered >>> message." >> >> I must of missed that point in Daniel's thread. I hadn't realized that >> the From would of been conditionally re-written. Today, endpoints (I >> take that to mean MUAs), don't seem to have a standard way of dealing >> with mailing lists anyway. So I'd say -1 to the reason. > > I don't think there's anything conditional about it. The suggestion is to > rewrite From: when the MLM remails its modified content. > > It sounds like you're saying that's a good idea. By my count that's three in > favour and two against, and I suspect that's not rough consensus in either > direction, but is probably enough to add some discussion about it to the > draft, unless of course there's objection to even mentioning the idea.
Altering the From: address is the behaviour of an anonymous remailer. That's a valid use case, certainly, but a tiny, tiny niche compared with the usual use of a mailing list manager, where the point of the MLM is to enable people to communicate with each other. In almost all cases the From: field should identify the person who wrote the email, not some intermediate implementation detail. A "-1" on ever altering the From: field for any reason other than special requirements of the people running a specific mailing list. Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
