[Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond

[Derek Martin]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:30:43PM -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:
> > Lists setting or rewriting Reply-To headers punishes users of
> > good, open source mail programs and rewards users of broken,
> > proprietary mail programs like Outlook.

On this, Richard and I agree.

> OK.  So if the list has a policy that all replies should be directed
> to the list rather than the author, what should the list do to
> "encourage" members to honor that policy?
>
> (Don't simply say that it's a bad policy...  

But it IS a bad policy.  It is not the place of the list or the list
manager to decide that my tangential response to a poster I know, on
an off-topic subject, and content which is not fit for "polite
company" belongs on the list.  And it should not make it hard for me
to provide such responses, or make it easy for such responses to
accidentally end up posted to the list contrary to my expectations.

Reply-to munging[1] is a bad practice, period.  The poster knows best
where his response should go, and should be afforded full control over
that.

> "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."

Isn't that exactly the same sentiment?

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[1] ...which I define as "adding, or replacing an existing, reply-to
header with a value *having no direct relation to the sender of the
message*." The case we are discussing in relation to DMARC *does not*
do that.

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