[ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review

[Dave CROCKER]

On 7/7/2011 12:41 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
>> Oh yes there is! Because identity assessors will undoubtedly give more
>> credence to messages where the signature domain is the same as the author
>> (i.e.From:) domain, ...
>
> My spam filters don't do that.


as well they shouldn't.

Somehow, validating a From: field of bad-actor at bad-host.example.com does provide 
any obvious basis for giving more 'credence' to the trustworthiness of the 
author or the message content.

but this does raise the question of how many times this point needs to be made?

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net