Request to list owner

Per Jessen per at computer.org
Tue Oct 14 10:45:54 UTC 2014


Professa Dementia wrote:

> On 10/14/2014 1:28 AM, Jorge Bastos wrote:
> 
>> Also the [Dovecot] on the subject would be handy.
> 
> The list used to do this.  I agree with you, and the matter was
> debated, but the list is not a democracy and Timo, as the owner,
> changed the list unilaterally.
> 
> The problem is that changing the subject conflicts with DKIM.  DKIM is
> a broken standard for several reasons; it does not have allowances for
> mailing lists to add their name to the subject - a very common and
> useful practice 

And superfluous too - for list identification, use the List-* headers
instead. 

> - and these days spam filters do a far superior job than DKIM, making
> it too little, too late.  I do not use DKIM and get no 
> spam. 

I don't use DKIM, and I get loads of spam :-)  As always, YMMV.



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