[Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond

Edward Ned Harvey (blu) blu at nedharvey.com
Sat May 17 17:44:51 EDT 2014


> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Bill Horne
> 
> > Have you looked into who's behind creating DMARC?  AOL, Google,
> Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Comcast, and others.
> 
> If you're inferring that the advertiser-supported email providers are
> conspiring to break something, then I don't agree.

Nothing of the sort.  I've heard a lot of things from a lot of different people, that suggest "to heck with yahoo," and imply just do nothing and ignore yahoo.  My comment above was to suggest that yahoo is not alone (or won't be for long), and the other big guys are likely to roll out similar policies some day, if not soon.  They're not doing it *to* break something; they're doing it to improve the state of the world, and have to acknowledge that it temporarily breaks things while the world catches up to the changes.


> I recommend the BLU update Mailman to a version which allows per-user
> options that will allow YaGooCast subscribers to receive posts sent to
> BLU mailing lists.

I agree.  At least 2.1.16, if not 2.1.18 or higher.  It seems to be the only sane thing to do.



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