On 10/26/25 9:35 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I think rather it indicates that fully 'secure' email is difficult, but
then there is no need for most mailing lists to be absolutely secure.
These problems do not occur when communication is direct, they're unique
to forwarding and mailing lists.
There are enough possible twiddles that people can generally solve any
specific issues on a list. So it rather suggests to me that if you have
an email account set up to be fully secure for whatever reason, then
you shouldn't use that for mailing lists but instead use an account
you're happier to discard if necessary.
Participation on a mailing list does not make your account less secure,
but the mail you receive from the list cannot be verified to the same
extent as the mail you receive directly.
These issues also make it harder for new mailing lists to be created,
e.g. if I were to create a new list identical to this one in setup, but
on a different domain and IP, I don't think I'd be able to deliver mail
to big mail providers at all.
With that caveat, I think mailing lists are still very useful.
I agree, I wouldn't be here otherwise! Please don't interpret this as me
being against mailing lists, my intention is to highlight some of their
problems and hopefully be corrected if I'm wrong on any accounts.
Cheers,
monodev
