> -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] > On Behalf Of Steve Atkins > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:21 PM > To: DKIM List > Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] MLMs and signatures again > > In my experience with traditional discussion MLMs (which is the > situation we're talking about) if I trust the MLM, I generally don't > care about who the participants are.
Good, that's useful data. > If the reputation of the MLM is poor enough that mail from it is not > being delivered, trumping that with an authors reputation may get > individual emails delivered - but not threads, so it doesn't really > improve the value provided to the recipient (it probably decreases it - > a mailing list that delivers one in ten posts to my inbox is less > useful than one that delivers none at all). Perhaps an MLM's reputation is pulled up or down as the average of those of its participants, so if the MLM can attract "good" senders, suddenly entire threads start getting through. But that would only be possible with signature survival. I don't know, I'm mostly brainstorming here. The abstract idea seems reasonable but the MLM instance of it carries with it so much baggage that it's perhaps the worst possible example. _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
