[Asrg] The state of the email system

[Steve Atkins]

On Nov 16, 2008, at 7:45 PM, Franck Martin wrote:

> I found
> http://utility.nokia.net/~lars/meter/dkim.html
>
> Which is interesting, but does not give an idea based on traffic. If  
> yahoo, hotmail and gmail implements dkim, well it could be more  
> traffic using dkim than may be a few ISPs...
>
> So I think it is important to base these stats on traffic rahter  
> than on how many sites have it configured.
>
> For the purpose of this workgroup I think we are looking at  
> technologies that reduce spam.

DKIM is not intended to reduce spam.

> So I guess a graph in time showing how much mail traffic is dkim/dk/ 
> spf(?)/senderid(?) would be interesting. I think making the plot  
> available would be interesting. I saw with the stop of the recent  
> botnet, security companies run graph on the number of spams within  
> the mail system., it would be nice to see the above graph per non- 
> spam traffic and spam traffic.
>
> For your case you would have to monitor only inbound mail traffic,  
> as with outbound, it would only tell us what you have implemented on  
> your MTA.
>
> Not sure I'm fully clear here...
>
> If several big mailing site do that, then it can be aggregated to  
> get an idea of what's happening.

It would certainly be interesting, but I'm not convinced it
would be particularly useful - as in changing anyones
behaviour.

Cheers,
   Steve