Re: Mailing lists - assumptions

On 4/18/14 2:38 PM, Jim Fenton wrote:
> I'm not seeing where it addresses bad actors posing as mailing lists.
>    

Are you worried about me sending to a bad actor and that bad actor 
re-sending my message plus or minus some modifications to my message? 
That's what I was trying to capture with 4:

> 4. If an originating site allows its users sending mail to mailing 
> lists at all, the site is OK with *any* mailing list re-distributing 
> mail from its users. so long as the mailing list received the mail 
> directly from the originating user through the originating site. That 
> is, originating sites don't care about pre-vetting mailing lists; they 
> just care that the mail sent by mailing lists came directly from their 
> users.

So, if you get mail that says "From: [email protected]" and was 
sent by "[email protected]", *and it has the appropriate 
token*, you know that I sent mail to [email protected]. Do 
you think we need to address more than that?

pr

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Pete Resnick<http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/>
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. - +1 (858)651-4478

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