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Re: [IETF] DMARC methods in mailman

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Tue, 27 December 2016 18:24 UTC

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> When a technique is invented that we
> know how to break or get around and then use it to attack a
> problem in the hope that the bad guys are too dumb (or just
> won't bother) to develop and apply the workarounds, we create a
> few additional problems.


Except that none of the anti-abuse efforts being used at scale are 
predicated on any such assumptions or logic.

That logic is, therefore, a strawman serving to distract from serious 
discussion.


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   Dave Crocker
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