On 10/27/25 8:38 AM, [email protected] wrote:
This is a Good Thing, actually. you can participate in a mailing list without
having your identity linked to your real life persona. In repressive regimes
(and every one can become one, eventually) this can be a life saver.
These are unrelated. SPF/DKIM breaking when a mailing list delivers mail
to you does not help your anonymity, as the mailing list presumably does
some checks when you send it mail. If it doesn't it's a free for all and
anyone can pretend to be anyone else on the list.
A court can check whether this is the case or not, but spam filters
can't, so delivery rate suffers for no benefit.
That said, if you actually want others to be able to check your identity,
you can gpg sign your mails (as I do). But it's *you* who picks that
identity.
This practice being standardized as a general and automated mail
authentication protocol would not be much different than DKIM except
being per-address instead of per-domain. DKIM alone is currently not
considered enough by most (if not all) big mail services.
Cheers,
monodev
