On Apr 8, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Rolf E. Sonneveld <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> On 04/08/2014 06:06 PM, Al Iverson wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> You may have solved the problem for some of your subscribers, but 
> simultaneously have introduced a new problem for all subscribers: MS Exchange 
> (and I'm sure there are other mail servers doing this as well) send out of 
> office replies to the header From address... [1] So you can wait for 
> complaints about out of office messages being sent to your lists.
> 
It is not like mailing lists have not addressed this problem before. I remember 
a time when were plagued by such messages. I believe they can detect such 
emails and suppress them or place them in the “require approval” bin...

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