[ietf-dkim] Re: "I sign everything" yes/no

[Charles Lindsey]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:20:06 -0000, Hallam-Baker, Phillip  
<pbaker at verisign.com> wrote:

> Deploying DKIM just within the NNTP environment as a spam control  
> measure could make a lot of sense. It will inevitably happen as people  
> write DKIM aware mail/news clients.

Not sure I agree there.

Phishing is irrelevant for News. There is much less spam on News than on  
Email (either that, or the news server I use has incredibly good filtering  
in place).

But there is a LOT of address scraping by spammers off News, as a result  
of which large numbers of posters routinely 'munge' their addresses  
(hopefully also adding a '.invalid' at the end), and that will rather  
defeat the intentions of DKIM.

Its only advantage AFAICS is when you know (or think it likely/possible)  
that your articles may be gatewayed into email at some stage.

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