On Friday, May 30, 2014 10:47 AM, Brandon Long <[email protected]> wrote:
> If hotmail/gmail were to go to p=REJECT, is a boycott still possible? actually, i would love this to happen. that way, p=reject would lose all legitimacy and DMARC policy model would be completely dead. and i would unsubscribe. by tightening the rope, more things fall out. since DMARC gate-keepers don't rly wanna fix it, i look forward for their over-zealousness to completely break the protocol. nobody would bother developing for and checking DMARC policy requirements, and DMARC would essentially become a simple reporting protocol, without authentication or compliance checks, for most services. the same happened with SPF, the same happened with DKIM+policy. and we would just fall back to blacklisting, whitelisting and all deep and complex processing good old anti-spam services do instead. cause the wisdom of blacklisting and whitelisting is too complex for DMARC to handle, it seems. even though, actually, alignment check is a way of whitelisting, essentially. when somebody like me has to draw pictures of basics... it speaks volume about how things in question are broken. -- Vlatko Salaj aka goodone http://goodone.tk _______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc
