On 10/27/25 8:38 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de 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.
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.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.
Cheers, monodev