[Asrg] DKIM role?

Rich Kulawiec rsk at gsp.org
Wed Nov 19 04:13:00 PST 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 06:05:17PM +1200, Franck Martin wrote:
> In fact the only thing that dkim is bringing with certainty, is that you can send replies to the enveloppe, if you have classifed the e-mail as spam, found a virus, etc.. 

But you shouldn't do this (send replies), for multiple reasons.  First,
at a strategic level, anything that generates still *more* mail traffic
when we already have way too much seems like a bad idea.  (This is one
of many problems with C/R and SAV s well.)  And at a tactical level,
what would be the point?  There's no way to know that such a reply will
ever be seen by the end user whose system has been zombied, and even if
they *do* see it, it's very unlikely they'll understand it, believe it,
and take effective action.

---Rsk


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