On 2024-04-12 at 19:01:21 UTC-0400 (Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:01:21 -0400)
Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com>
is rumored to have said:

> Also, I'm not sure you said this, but I would say:
>
>    default whitelist is dkim only

No. Existing practice is that we trust both DKIM and SPF, and I think that's 
fine.

There are no unauthenticated listings extant in the default rules and no new 
ones should ever be created.

>    This means
>
>      All existing entries are converted to dkim as well as we can, not
>      worrying if they break.  We'll prune ones that don't work as dkim,
>      and add a signing domain as we figure it out, as a lightweight
>      thing.  But all non-dkim entries go away.
>
>      to consider a new entry, it must be dkim
>
> or maybe that's already true


s/dkim/authenticated/ and it's already true.

This is part of how the default welcomelist has lost alignment with its 
origins. The original was a tactical mitigation against heavy phishing in a 
largely unauthenticated-sender world, deployed in part to forestall extreme 
responses to the problem of everyone claiming to send Paypal notifications to 
everyone.


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Bill Cole
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