On 04/08/2014 12:54 AM, John R Levine wrote:
As has been discussed about a million times over the past 15 years, it
is not a bug that mailing lists modify the messages, they've been
doing it forever, and they're not going to stop just because the FUSSP
du jour can't cope with it.
This is true as far as it goes, but they might stop if Domain Owners
and/or receivers representing a large enough number of users implement
practices that disrupt this.
I'd suggest that - however much we feel that Yahoo!'s action is unwise
and/or inappropriate - this represents a material change to the "facts
on the ground" and may therefore shift list operators' interests:
* from resisting responding to the urging of others to accommodate
DMARC because, as FUSSP du jour, it represents an opportunity for
list operators to sacrifice [non-existent] budget implementing yet
another futile scheme,
* to accommodating DMARC simply because it is now in their interests
to do so.
I am going to assume that Yahoo!'s email people haven't lost their minds
and - despite the failure to give a heads up - actually did carefully
assess the impact of the change before making it and that, therefore,
they're not likely to undo this change. Note in particular that the
rua/ruf mechanisms originated with Yahoo!, it seems rather unlikely that
they neglected to consult them. If my assumption is correct, then the
sensible behaviour for list operators would now appear to be to let go
of the reflexive "not our problem" response and embrace a "here is how
we can make it work" stance because, clearly, it now _*is*_ a list
operator's problem.
- Roland
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