Re: [Asrg] The state of the email system

[John Levine <asrg at johnlevine.com>]

>Huh DKIM is for what then? Not sure what it was created for then? Why do
>we bother to implement? 

DKIM makes it easier to identify the actual sender of a message.  In
practice, its likely utility will be to recognize mail from people you
trust so it can bypass the filters.  As a sufficient fraction of real
mail is recognized, you can crank up the filters on what's left.

I am surprised that any of this would be news to people who'd been
following the discussion here in recent months.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
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