With feedback from Franck Martin and Sam Silberman, I modified my
mailing list manager to rewrite the from address to be the list
address, if the user posting is from a domain with a restrictive DMARC
policy setting. It seems to be working well, so I've rolled it out to
the production version that I use for my active lists. Probably took
2-3 hours total to work through a couple different iterations to come
to that end.

I decided I didn't want to cause my subscribers pain since there was a
way for me to just deal with it on the back end.

Cheers,
Al Iverson

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:39 AM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Block any attempt to post to a mailing list from a domain that
>>> publishes strict DMARC. That doesn't affect functionality for
>>> legitimate users and it complies with the domain owners
>>> wishes (however misguided).
>>
>>That's clever, and oddly constructive.  It informs the user of the issue
>>at exactly the right time:  when the subscription is being attempted and
>>the user is focused on the possibility of the subscription having
>>problems.  Much better than indirect and obscure notification later,
>>after posting a message.
>
> Steve actually said when people try to post.  I tried that, since it's
> one line in the config in my list manager.  It caught a bunch of mail
> from real people going to real lists (the church lists are busy, the
> minister just said he's retiring) and I would not look forward to
> explaining to people why their mail account that has worked fine for a
> decade can't reply and say whether they're coming to this afternoon's
> meeting.
>
> So I did the redacted From: line which was slightly harder, but moves
> the pain slightly while still encouraging people to find a new address.
>
> R's,
> John
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