> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-
> boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Al Iverson
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:52 AM
> To: <ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org>
> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] If DKIM would ignore [] at the beginning of
> the subject line
> 
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy
> <m...@cloudmark.com> wrote:
> 
> > That's also something we considered when talking to the Mailman
> people.  But again, this is really a small percentage of what causes
> author signatures on list mail to break.
> >
> >> Anyway, the list should be signing messages after adding subject
> line
> >> prefixes, and after adding body footers. It's the list's signature,
> and
> >> the list's reputation that need to be assessed by the recipient.
> There
> >> are many other modifications that a list might make (like stripping
> >> attachments, body prefixes, and so on) that would make l= useless.
> >
> > I think the MLM document makes all of this stuff pretty clear
> already.
> 
> It does to me; it seems like dropping the original signature and
> signing with the list manager site signature is the appropriate way to
> go. I don't think I'd want to know that there is a use case where my
> DKIM signature still passes after somebody modified headers. Good
> intent aside, I see it being used for bad purposes too easily.
> 
> If you're worried about DKIM signing spam sent to the list address,
> then that's a bit of a different problem, and it has a different,
> non-DKIM-related solution.
> 
> Cheers,
> Al Iverson
> 

+1

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