On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Scott Howard <sc...@doc.net.au> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Jim Popovitch <jim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 7-April: Monday, Yahoo's dmarc change kicks everyone in the groin, the >> last full week before the US tax filing deadline. > > > The change was made on the previous Friday, so that date is largely > irrelevant. > >> 7-April: OpenSSL's *public* advisory (after a full week of private >> notifications, of which yahoo surely was one tech company in on the >> early notifications) > > > Given that many of their main services were vulnerable at the time of public > disclosure, I think that's a very large assumption to make... > > If nothing else, I suspect the odds of it being known by the same people > that made the DMARC decision/changes is low.
I think you are right on that, but that doesn't change the fact that the sum of those things overburdened a lot of mailinglist operators. It is what it is, and the press has covered it and mailinglists are blocking/unsub'ing yahoo accounts in order to cope. -Jim P.