thanks to @hko patiently reminding me that in fact this is precisely the category of failure mode that the disjoint protocols of email and pgp are well-known to result in. i have been so intensely ocused upon the extremely specific subproblem of symmetric crypto for filesystem data integrity the past week that i had entirely failed to appreciate that (of course!!!!) nobody really even agrees upon the ideal delegated trust structure for email-like communication in the first place!

ery much like with build tools) there is a really deep need for work like @hko does with rphpto

@hipsterelectron I am trying to imagine a case where RMS congratulating me on something could be anything other than a mark of shame, and I’m coming up blank.

@hipsterelectron I don't think you should read anything in to DMARC failing. It's mail through a mailing list that modifies the body. It's never going to pass DMARC (even if the original mail was DKIM signed, which it doesn't look like it was).

Without doing a deep dive into it, they look like normal, plausible mailing list mail.

the first one on aug 17. note the attestation of dmarc=fail by proton

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[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

Belated congratulations on the new release.

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