>> what i actually care about is: >> - authenticity: that you sent the message, for some value of "you," >> maybe your email addy[0], >> - integrity: it was not altered (and, in this case it was, both >> headers and text, thanks to dmarc, mailmate, etc.), and >> - confidentiality: for some, not this, email privacy is needed >> >> from my pov there is a serious disconnect here > > On my small system I feel pretty much the way you do, but large > systems have different issues. Someone will get a plausible sender to > send them a message with spammy contents, then they will resend that > message unaltered to a zillion recipients at large mail systems which > is hard to detect quickly since the DKIM, DMARC et al. are all OK. > Being able to see there is an extra hop or two in the path that > doesn't look like a mailing list is useful for them.
and 30+ years of email content and protocol hacking driven by that view has worked sooooo well randy _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6AW54RCTAG5PHKH7QJS7IS2RAP6OKJPL/
