Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large open-source lists

[Doug Barton <[e-mail]>]

On 04/14/2014 05:03 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
> On 4/14/2014 3:27 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>> What I AM suggesting however, and I realize that this is a hard pill to
>> swallow for many IETF'ers, is that IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS mailing
>> list traffic is inconsequential to large e-mail providers.
>
>
> That view is popular, but it's quite wrong.
>
> What /is/ true is that mailing list traffic by users of large mailbox
> providers, through small, independent mailing list providers, is
> probably negligible.  That's the category of primary victim of the
> recent change.

Right, which is what we're talking about.

If all my message traffic is on internal only systems (such as the 
social networking you described) then I don't care what my transport 
mechanism is; mail, XMPP, or RFC 1419. It's not going out of my network, 
so I don't even need to use an Internet standard.

So getting back to solving the actual problem at hand ....

Doug