[ietf-dkim] DKIM adoption

Scott Kitterman ietf-dkim at kitterman.com
Fri Jul 31 19:12:41 PDT 2009


On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 12:51:01 +1200 (FJT) Franck Martin <franck at genius.com> 
wrote:
>Yes the reputation of the domain override things, but what happens when it 
is the first time a domain is seen? Does DKIM help or not? 
>
It can't.

>Also, I'm thinking in terms of points like for spammassin. Seeing some 
patterns in the email increase or lower the points.
>
>
Some of the people involved early in the SPF project had the same idea.  It 
did encourage spaammer to adopt it, but it also had a big backlash after 
people noticed spammers could publish SPF record just fine and the positive 
points were just helping spammers.

I don't suggest a repeat.

Scott K


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