On 19/May/11 05:17, John Levine wrote:
> The point I was making was that ever more complex ways to decide that
> two mutated versions of a message are "the same" aren't likely to help
> much, certainly not compared to the large cost of implementing code
> even more complex than what relaxed does now.

Just to mention two of those ways, MIME rewriting is a capability
mayor MTAs introduced when MIME took root, HTML styles mangling is an
ongoing MUA exercise.

> And anyway, if your goal is for your message to survive, you should
> armor it better, not come up with more arcane ways to declare that
> it may be bleeding heavily but it's not dead yet.

Interesting, but not less intricate.  The semantics of authenticating
only the armored part of a message is not obvious.  Resorting to
base64 encoding is subject to varying interpretations, including
spammers attempts to avoid naive content filtering.
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