[ietf-dkim] Draft summary of SSP functionality

Dave Crocker dhc at dcrocker.net
Thu Dec 6 09:43:30 PST 2007



Michael Thomas wrote:
>> To use your example, where 5 declares spam, why is the configuration 
>> likely to set STRICT to 4 rather than 10 or 100, given the semantics 
>> of Strict?
> 
>   Why does this matter? It's an implementation detail. You only asked
>   whether people would use SSP that way. The answer is a resounding yes.


What an interesting perspective.  The degree of weight that gets used for this 
feature is merely an implementation detail, rather than a fundamental test of 
the mechanism's utility.

For reference I asked a different question than you chose to hear, but I think 
we have sufficiently demonstrated that this exchange cannot be productive.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
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