RE: [Asrg] E-mail Postmarks

["Bob Atkinson" <bobatk at exchange.microsoft.com>]

If one tried to do anything new in email without breaking anyone, you'd
do nothing new.

In this particular case, there are hundreds of thousands of servers that
I myself know about that are in this camp; there's also a few big sites
that account for a substantial volume of mail flow.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asrg-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:asrg-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf
Of Jon
> Kyme
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 7:13 AM
> To: ASRG
> Subject: Re: [Asrg] E-mail Postmarks
> 
> Bob Atkinson:> Specifically, in this divergence there seem to be those
who
> would like
> > to digitally sign the literal entire bytes of (a suffix of) an
RFC2822
> > message body, and those (myself included) who quite strongly believe
> > that such an approach is so fragile so as to ultimately be of quite
> > little value.
> >
> 
> Do you have any figures for what proportion of messages have their
bodies
> mutilated passing through SMTP relays? Or is *some*, however few, too
many
> for you?

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