Re: DKIM2 - was Re: Re: Oversigning Resent-xxx headers

Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-users <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 4 Aug 2025, Mike Pellatt via Exim-users wrote:

> On 03/08/2025 20:39, Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-users wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 3 Aug 2025, John Levine via Exim-users wrote:
>> 
>>> It appears that Andreas Metzler via Exim-users <[email protected]> said:
>>>> On 2025-07-31 Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-users 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>> If it does turn out that DKIM2 verification is based on libraries,
>>>>> given the recent comments about libspf2, please ensure that that there
>>>>> is a well support and maintained public domain implementation for these
>>>>> libraries.
>>>> 
>>>> Who should "ensure this" and how? Are they reading this mailing-list?
>>> 
>>> Some of them are, but demands that other people spend money to solve your
>>> problems rarely are persuasive.
>> 
>> I find that very demoralising.
>> 
> Remember the warranty of Open Source:
>
> "If it breaks, you get to keep the pieces"
>
> Putting them back together is left as an exercise for the reader

I am reminded of https://xkcd.com/2347/

This is not as bad, but when the gorillas put new hoops into email
it makes it harder for the small developers.
I was trying to ask that they at least put the new hoops on the highway
so that we don't have to maintain a new path in order to jump through 
them.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    [email protected]

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