On Aug 24, 2014, at 3:07 PM, Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 24, 2014, at 4:05 PM, Matt Simerson via dmarc-discuss 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On lists you don't manage, there is little you can do besides pester the 
>> list operator and ask them to make their list DMARC compatible. But:
>> 
>>   1. list operators tend to be change resistant
>>   2. there are now patches available for most list software to make them 
>> DMARC compatible
>>   3. For unmaintained MLMs, like ezmlm, turning off options like subject 
>> prefix and trailers suffices.
>>   4. ezmlm-idx does have patches
>>   5. Some of the MLM patches don't rewrite the sender *unless* they detect a 
>> p=reject policy
>>   6. see #1
>> 
>> I'm not going to rehash material from the FAQ but thinking about it from the 
>> list operators perspective, why should *they* have to change *their* list so 
>> that your silly little anti-phishing security thingy works? (I don't 
>> subscribe to that school of thought, but that's frequently the attitude)
> 
> This is a vast oversimplification.

Of course it is.

> And the argument that it eliminates phishing is just wrong.

Yes, and your straw man is wearing no clothes. I stated that phishing abuse for 
*my* domains has been *reduced* in both volume and duration, and I attributed 
that change to implementing a p=reject DMARC policy. Before DMARC, I got lots 
of bounce messages, now I get DMARC reports during phish attempts. 

> I get just as many phishing emails as I did before AOL and Yahoo instituted 
> DMARC p=reject.

These are *not* mutually exclusive experiences.

If you don't validate incoming messages against DMARC, *of course* you're going 
to see just as much phish as before AOL and Yahoo instituted their DMARC 
policies.

DMARC is only blocks phish *from* domains that publish strong DMARC policies to 
receivers that validate and enforce those strong policies.

Matt
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