[ietf-dkim] (offtopicish) RFC 4871 Word Cloud

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Doug Otis <doug.mtview at gmail.com> wrote:
> Most email abuse emanates from hundreds of millions of compromised systems.
>  Most of these systems have been compromised by browser related exploits.
>  Email authentication helps recipients determine whether it might be safe to
> run scripts, or whether it might be safe to click on links contained within
> emails, or to accept any number of often socially engineered threats.

No sorry. Reputation and reputational analysis of individual emails -
possibly but not entirely tied ot authentication - determines that.

If you go around comparing this to seatbelts on cars, that's a
staggeringly bad analogy.

-srs