[Mailman-Developers] dkim-signature headers
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Thu Feb 8 04:19:42 CET 2007
Barry Warsaw writes:
> > Make sure no spam gets through your double opt-in list, and you're
> > golden, no?
>
> Ideally yeah. But python.org does get reported occasionally since
> while I think we do a pretty good job of blocking most spam, some
> nasties gated from Usenet still get through. Sigh.
*sigh* is right. Mailing lists will take *some* collateral damage.
But DKIM is a very plausible approach to not just nibbling at spam,
but biting off as much as we can chew. Especially since (unlike SPF
and challenge-reponse) it's already widely implemented. The benefits
have to be assessed as potentially much bigger than the small
deviation from the ideal.
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