Re: Google.com hops on the DMARC bandwagon

Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> Tue, 29 April 2014 19:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: Google.com hops on the DMARC bandwagon
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:16 PM, John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> I see that google.com now publishes a DMARC policy of p=quarantine.
>
> While this won't bounce people off lists like p=reject does, it still makes
> it fairly pointless to post to this or any other list from a google.com

google.com or gmail.com ?

(corporate users or regular-old-consumer-gmail-users)

> address, since no recipients hosted at Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Comcast,
> or other large providers will see it.
>
> If you're at Google, you might want to find yourself a less broken address,
> and perhaps ask the people in your mail team if their intention was to tell
> you not to particpate in the IETF on work time.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail.
>