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Re: What I've been wondering about the DMARC problem

Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> Tue, 15 April 2014 03:04 UTC

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On 04/14/2014 06:45 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I thought that standard operating procedure in the IT industry
> was: if you roll something out and it causes serious breakage to
> some of your users, you roll it back as soon as possible.
>
> Why hasn't Yahoo rolled back its 'reject' policy by now?

Simple ... from Yahoo!'s perspective the breakage is negligible, not 
serious. Traditional e-mail traffic to and from traditional e-mail lists 
(like this one) is simply not large enough to lose sleep over. Keep in 
mind, Yahoo! knew what breakage was going to occur before they threw the 
switch, and they threw the switch anyway.

Again, I realize that it's hard for most IETF'ers to conceive of, but in 
this matter we are the ultimate anachronists.

Doug

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