> On 5 May 2014, at 4:59 pm, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > > Peter Shute writes: > >> How does Yahoo's DMARC policy reduce the benefit of Paypal's? >> Because servers can't follow the reject recommendation without > > No, it's because users get used to ignoring warnings about DMARC > issues. If it was *only* your bank, you'd learn to pay attention to > them. But when you (FVO "you" susceptible to phishing in the first > place, of course!) see a pile of DMARC workarounds every day for 70% > of your correspondents, how do you respond to this?
Sorry, what does FVO stand for? > All of our mail to you have come back to us due to DMARC rejects, > so we need to use this unusual address. > > Please confirm your blah-blah-blah by clicking <here> and logging > in to our secure site. > > 2% of AOL customers will respond by clicking, at last report. :-( They get a warning? I thought it just bounced, and the intended recipient never knew. > >> And does the emergence of legitimate p=reject policies mean it's >> now less likely Yahoo and AOL will back down? > > What makes you think the banks didn't start doing this ages ago? > Apparently they merely haven't made an explicit announcement. > I wondered about that. Anyone know? Peter Shute ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org