Re: DMARC from the perspective of the listadmin of a bunch of SMALL community lists

Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> Thu, 24 April 2014 23:30 UTC

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Martin,

Martin Rex wrote:
> In case you didn't know or realize, what DMARC specifies for p=reject
> is actually a real felony crime in Germany (no kidding!), and this may
> apply to all over Europe (since the basic idea was spread out all over
> europe with a EU directive), unless each individual receipient(!!) has
> explicitly opted-in for this to happen.  It should be fairly easy
> to get a cease-and-desist order against European ISPs for blocking
> EMail on DMARC p=reject.
>
Can you provide a legal citation?  That would be really cool!

 From where I sit, it also looks like a violation of the US Computer 
Fraud and Abuse Act (effectively, knowingly causing damage to other 
systems - which has been applied to DDoS attacks).  But I haven't heard 
any lawyers or prosecutors stand up and confirm that.

Miles Fidelman