>5) Set p=reject without taking this advice into account and then be shocked 
>and horrified that mail
>you wanted to deliver is rejected.

It's worse than that.  If you set p=reject and send mail to lists, you
will hurt innocent bystanders.

If recipients implement DMARC in good faith and do what it says, and
your mail starts arriving from lists, the recipients will reject that
mail, which the lists will see as delivery failures.  With enough
delivery failures, those recipients will be bounced off the list due
to your malfeasance.

This exact thing happened on some IETF lists when DKIM was young and
some MTA operator overimplemented ADSP and treated "discard" as
reject.

The right thing to do is not to send mail to lists from domains that
have a policy other than p=none.  I agree with your outline of the
reasonable options.

R's,
John

PS: The fact that this hasn't happened even though we know at least
one contributor to this list uses p=reject suggests that recipients
aren't taking DMARC all that seriously.  At this rate, they never
will.
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