Douglas, > A marketing advantage would be afforded to domains willing to do the > "right thing" by indicating to recipients via a lightweight > transaction whether a specific domain should be excluded from > receiving a reject or quarantine.
I know nothing of the legal argument, but as an email user I would argue that should be a Sender domain, instead of or alternative to a From domain. That would let me exclude the email lists of which I'm a member.
That is, I'm perfectly content to let DMARC take out all the scam/spam messages with forged AOL addresses, even those pretending to be from lists. I expressly do /not/ want to whitelist all of AOL. But I want to allow into my Inbox messages from AOL via lists that I know. It would be icing on this cake if the list's own SPF or DKIM signature (if present) were used to authenticate that the message came via the list I know.
Making the whitelist personal to each receiving user avoids the costs and other disadvantages of setting up a "list authority", but it does violate the "you can't teach the user anything" principle, and it is also outside the scope of DMARC itself.
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