Re: is it just me or...

[Randy Bush via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

> > what i actually care about is:
> >  - authenticity: that you sent the message, for some value of "you,"
> >    maybe your email addy[0],
> >  - integrity: it was not altered (and, in this case it was, both
> >    headers and text, thanks to dmarc, mailmate, etc.), and
> >  - confidentiality: for some, not this, email privacy is needed
> >
> > from my pov there is a serious disconnect here
>
> On my small system I feel pretty much the way you do, but large
> systems have different issues.  Someone will get a plausible sender to
> send them a message with spammy contents, then they will resend that
> message unaltered to a zillion recipients at large mail systems which
> is hard to detect quickly since the DKIM, DMARC et al. are all OK.
> Being able to see there is an extra hop or two in the path that
> doesn't look like a mailing list is useful for them.

and 30+ years of email content and protocol hacking driven by that view
has worked sooooo well

randy
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