Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Christopher Morrow: I sort of wonder if this is really just yahoo trying to use a stick to motivate people to do the right thing? But what is the right thing here? Do we really want that *all* mailing lists must not provider reply to sender option to all their users? Will this list make

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-17 Thread Private Sender
On Wed 16 Apr 2014 09:40:11 PM PDT, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Private Sender nob...@snovc.com wrote: On 04/14/2014 03:47 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: 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

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-17 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/16/2014 09:19 PM, Private Sender wrote: I'm sorry but is there a fundamental misunderstanding of dmarc going on in this thread? Yahoo doesn't want you to be able to send @yahoo.com email from anything other than THEIR servers which contain the private key that corresponds to their DKIM

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-17 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:19:18 -0700, Private Sender said: I'm sorry but is there a fundamental misunderstanding of dmarc going on in this thread? Yes, apparently mostly on the part of Yahoo apologists... There is no need to flame a company because they implemented a policy to ensure QoS to

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-17 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/17/2014 08:34 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:19:18 -0700, Private Sender said: I'm sorry but is there a fundamental misunderstanding of dmarc going on in this thread? Yes, apparently mostly on the part of Yahoo apologists... There is no need to flame a

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
Michael Thomas wrote: On 04/17/2014 08:34 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:19:18 -0700, Private Sender said: I'm sorry but is there a fundamental misunderstanding of dmarc going on in this thread? Yes, apparently mostly on the part of Yahoo apologists... There is no

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-16 Thread Private Sender
On 04/14/2014 03:47 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: 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

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-16 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/16/2014 11:19 PM, Private Sender nobody snovc com wrote: Does that raise any alarms? -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-16 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.netwrote: On 4/16/2014 11:19 PM, Private Sender nobody snovc com wrote: Does that raise any alarms? Of course it does. http://whois.domaintools.com/snovc.com computerguy0...@yahoo.com Bret Taylor -Jim P.

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-16 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Private Sender nob...@snovc.com wrote: On 04/14/2014 03:47 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: 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

DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Just a thought. I keep thinking that Yahoo's publishing of their p=reject policy, and the subsequent massive denial of service to lost of list traffic might be viewed as a computer security incident. Anybody think that reporting via CERT channels might be an appropriate response? (I do,

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Laszlo Hanyecz
I don't see what the big deal is here. They don't want your messages and they made that clear. Their policy considers these messages spam. If you really want to get your mailing list messages through, then you need to evade their filters just like every other spammer has to. -Laszlo On

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:56:46 -, Laszlo Hanyecz said: If you really want to get your mailing list messages through, The problem isn't the rest of us trying to mail to Yahoo. The problem is when Yahoo users post to lists that use DMARC, and the result is the yahoo user's mail getting

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Isn't it the other way around? They don't want their users to be able to send to mailing lists. They receive traffic from the lists just fine. Their policy considers only effects mail originating from their users. Yahoo subscribers can receive messages form nanog just fine, but they can't

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Laszlo Hanyecz
By their statement it's obvious that yahoo doesn't care about what they broke. It's unfortunate that email has become so centralized that one entity can cause so much 'trouble'. Maybe it's a good opportunity to encourage the affected mailing list subscribers to use their own domains for

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:03 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: The problem is when Yahoo users post to lists that use DMARC, and the result is the yahoo user's mail getting bounced or dumped on the postmaster. Basically, this is just like old ORBS. If you were an ISP, you had to check your

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Laszlo Hanyecz las...@heliacal.net wrote: By their statement it's obvious that yahoo doesn't care about what they broke. It's unfortunate that email has become so centralized that one entity can cause so much 'trouble'. Maybe it's a good opportunity to

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Matthew Petach
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Laszlo Hanyecz las...@heliacal.netwrote: By their statement it's obvious that yahoo doesn't care about what they broke. It's unfortunate that email has become so centralized that one entity can cause so much 'trouble'. Maybe it's a good opportunity to

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Laszlo Hanyecz las...@heliacal.net wrote: By their statement it's obvious that yahoo doesn't care about what they broke. It's unfortunate that email has become so centralized that one entity can cause so much 'trouble'. Maybe it's a

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Matthew Petach mpet...@netflight.com wrote: So, I take it you prefer a world in which there's no sender validation, and receiving floods of spoofed sender email spam is just part of the price of being on the internet? That is clearly not what this issue is

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Jim Popovitch jim...@gmail.com wrote: DMARC hasn't cut down on yahoo spam so far. Yahoo's spam problem was (is?) centered on account hijacks. I just checked my spam folder for the past month. Out of about 80 messages from Yahoo, I can see about 3 that went

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: Whilst I don't agree with the way that Yahoo has done this (particularly around communication), how could they have communicated this better? how can we all learn from this? -chris

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/14/2014 01:20 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: Whilst I don't agree with the way that Yahoo has done this (particularly around communication), how could they have communicated this better? how can we all learn from this?

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: Whilst I don't agree with the way that Yahoo has done this (particularly around communication), how could they have communicated this

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: The obvious ones would have been to announce a flag day somewhere far enough in advance to give list software devs time to adapt, and to work with list software devs on a solution. where would they communicate this? on the

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Matthias Leisi matth...@leisi.net wrote: They could have communicated, as in listen folks, we are going to make a critical change that will affect mailing lists (etc...) in four weeks time. communicated it where? They could have made the change not late on a

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: The obvious ones would have been to announce a flag day somewhere far enough in advance to give list software devs time to adapt, and to

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Matthias Leisi matth...@leisi.net wrote: They could have communicated, as in listen folks, we are going to make a critical change that will affect mailing lists (etc...) in

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/14/2014 01:38 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: The obvious ones would have been to announce a flag day somewhere far enough in advance to give list software devs time to adapt, and to work with list software devs on a

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Matthias Leisi matth...@leisi.net wrote: They could have communicated, as in listen folks, we are going to make a critical change that will affect mailing lists (etc...) in four

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Matthias Leisi matth...@leisi.net wrote: They could have communicated, as in listen folks, we are going

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 04/14/2014 01:38 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: The obvious ones would have been to announce a flag day somewhere far enough in advance to give

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:33:40AM -0700, Matthew Petach wrote: So, I take it you prefer a world in which there's no sender validation, and receiving floods of spoofed sender email spam is just part of the price of being on the internet? Sender validation means NOTHING in a world with hundreds

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: if you're going to do something that has the potential to affect (say, for example) email to a wide set of people, most of which are NOT your direct users, how do you go about making that public? 'the

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Matthias Leisi wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: Whilst I don't agree with the way that Yahoo has done this (particularly around communication), how could they have

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Matthias Leisi matth...@leisi.net wrote: They could have communicated, as in

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Matthias Leisi wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: Whilst I don't agree with the

RE: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread rw...@ropeguru.com
[mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 5:28 PM Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: DMARC - CERT? Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 14

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Apr 14, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: As I've said many times, email forgery is not the problem. It's a symptom of the problem, and the problem is rotten underlying security coupled with negligent and incompetent operational practice. But fixing that is hard, and

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jim Popovitch wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Matthias Leisi wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: Whilst I

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Jim Popovitch jim...@gmail.com wrote: They could have made the change not late on a Friday afternoon (or well into the weekend for most of the world). On the weekend before tax filings are due in the US! And a couple of days before Passover. and in

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Leo Bicknell wrote: Ultimately the way to reduce spam is to catch spammers, prosecute them, and put them in prison. The way we keep all of those other crimes low is primarily by enforcement; making the punishment not worth the crime. With spam, the chance that a spammer will be punished is

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Jim Popovitch jim...@gmail.com wrote: They could have made the change not late on a Friday afternoon (or well into the weekend for most of the world). On the weekend before tax

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Scott Howard
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

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: 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

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread John Levine
In article cal9jlazjjppz7vzw2ue4qfqwrkcbu7cs1ed3uu1nhudhxxk...@mail.gmail.com you write: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: Whilst I don't agree with the way that Yahoo has done this (particularly around communication), how could they have communicated this

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jim Popovitch wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Jim Popovitch jim...@gmail.com wrote: They could have made the change not late on a Friday afternoon (or well into the weekend for most of the world). On the weekend

Re: DMARC - CERT?

2014-04-14 Thread Jim Popovitch
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