Re: Enough DMARC whinging

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 01 May 2014 16:49 UTC

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Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 16:48:52 -0000
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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Enough DMARC whinging
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>Note that historically, mailing list operators have been resistant to
>the imposition of technical or operational changes.

I think you're overstating things a little.  I am very unsympathetic
to changes that would require retraining all my users, e.g., putting
the list address on the From: line.  Technical changes that don't mess
up the users are no more of an issue than any other software upgrade
is to a small volunteer site.  In particular, I've never seen anyone
opposed to adding DKIM signatures to help recipient systems recognize
the lists.

R's,
John