[ietf-dkim] draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-02 review

[Steve Atkins]

On Sep 10, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Charles Lindsey wrote:

> On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:15:37 +0100, Hector Santos <hsantos at isdg.net> wrote:
> 
>> I think you need to better appreciate and understand how fundamental
>> the "Message" From field for any forms of communications and/or mail
>> networks is.  It would be a radical change to open up this door and
>> "Pandora box" to make it the norm and mindset that a From: is
>> unreliable. Not saying it is not prone to abusive, but fundamentally,
>> when people believe in the message, they also make that natural
>> trusted tie to the author of the message.
> 
> Yes, but nobody is trying to change that. We seem to be agreed that what a  
> mailing list sends is, from some POV, a "new" message, and so logically a  
> new "From:" is not wholly out of order.

What's the benefit to this, though, other than obscuring the original
author?

Cheers,
  Steve