[ietf-dkim] Wrong Discussion - was Why mailing lists should strip DKIM signatures

Jeff Macdonald macfisherman at gmail.com
Fri Apr 30 08:32:09 PDT 2010


On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Dave CROCKER <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:
>> I wrote:
>> and forging the From address
>
> It's not forged:
>
>   "to imitate fraudulently"
>
>   <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forge>
>
> The use of that word, for this situation, is simply incorrect.
>
> And the retention of the original posting's From: string is quite simply
> valid.  The fact that it is causing a problem for some add-on technologies
> does not, post hoc, render the string invalid.

Perhaps poorly chosen words. But I think most understood the intent.
I'm willing to go from a world where any system can use my From to one
where only the systems I say can. And that means changes.

-- 
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA



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