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>policy of p=reject. Domains should not be able to externalize their
>internal problems to others.

Isn't that exactly the mailing list problem?

>> Only if you believe that the domain on the From: line is automatically
>> more credible than the one on the Sender: line. The whole third party
>> problem is that the people sending their mail through lists or
>> whatever are in fact doing so legitimately, but for various reasons
>> their organizations' DMARC policies lie and say they aren't.
>>
>
>I think you are misusing the term "credible". Domains which are publishing
>p=reject policies are making an assertion regarding mail purporting to be
>authorized by their domain. It is not an assertion that their mail is
>"good" or should be delivered to a recipient ...

No, it's an assertion that mail that's unaligned is unauthorized, and
a request to reject it. For mail that their users send through mailing
lists, that assertion is false and the request clearly not what the
organization and its users want. This is what I conclude from the
number of unhappy people to whom I have had to explain that their mail
is disappearing because their employer told recipient systems to do
so.

> This is why I made the point above that lists should respect DMARC
>policy and not accept submissions from domains with DMARC p=reject
>policies. 

Lists have been around a lot longer than DMARC has. Perhaps you meant
to say that domains whose users participate in mailing lists should
not publish restrictive DMARC policies. If they don't want their users
to send mail to lists, they should tell their users not to send mail
to lists.

There are lots of organizations that actively want their employees to
participate in the IETF, to the extent that they give them paid time
for IETF activities, yet publish p=reject policies to cripple that
participation. I wish they would make up their minds.

R's,
John

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