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Re: [dmarc-ietf] Email security beyond DMARC?

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 21 March 2019 14:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Email security beyond DMARC?
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>> DMARC has never been an anti-spam scheme.  It's about phishing, which is
>> not the same thing.
>
> I'm going to have to disagree with you John. DMARC is about preventing
> direct domain abuse. It does not specifically address phishing as the bad
> guys can simply use cousin domains, homoglyphs, etc.

Well, it's abount a subset of phishing.  It's surely more about phishing 
than about spam.

R's,
John

PS: on the other hand, if your point is that DMARC impases significant 
costs for small and dubious benefits, I wouldn't disagree.

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