I realize this probably won't come as a surprise to anyone, but substantial
portions of this very discussion landed in my spam folder at GMail, for no
reason other than DMARC failure AFAICT. ("*Be careful with this
message.*Our systems couldn't verify that this message was really sent
by
<FromDomain>. You might want to avoid clicking links or replying with
personal information.")


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Josh Aberant <[email protected]> wrote:

> Indeed, a lot of the discussion on this thread and the many other threads
> on DMARC and MLMs over the past year have often seemed to be based the
> assumption that email is working today and DMARC breaks it. Yet, in many
> way email is not working today and hasn't been for some time. Today email
> is the number one vector for initiating cyber-crime - this is very broken
> situation.
>
> While everyone wants to spew vile at Yahoo in many ways they made a simple
> sensible decision. They knew full well what their reject policy would break
> mailing lists but decided to value their users' safety above that.
>
> Josh
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Al Iverson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:15 AM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>You have perhaps pointed to a fairly elegant way for MLMs to deal with
>> >>p=reject: ...
>> >
>> >>  * Just hitting reply no longer works of course, ...
>> >
>> > By breaking perfectly reasonable and useful features for everyone.
>> > Please stop.
>>
>> Please continue! Trying new things is a first step in evolution of a
>> process. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don't. You and we
>> tend to learn from the experience regardless. Occasionally naysayers
>> will respond and explain patiently and repeatedly that for the past 35
>> years, email and lists have worked exactly a certain way and that this
>> means they should not change. Don't listen to them; "because 1970s"
>> isn't a valid reason to stand still.
>>
>> All the things I've tried at random and shared with the community --
>> DNSBLs, RHSBLs, sample COI code, web tools, etc., have always had at
>> least one person say "You should stop immediately because you don't
>> know what you're doing." Even though they were sometimes right, I'm
>> glad that I never listened to them.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Al Iverson
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