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Re: [dmarc-ietf] Suggestion: can we test DEMARC deployment with a mailing list?

Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> Tue, 06 May 2014 00:27 UTC

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Fred Baker (fred) wrote:
> On May 5, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>
>> Fred Baker (fred) wrote:
>>> We have been having a fairly extended discussion, much of which seems hypothetical - “I don’t like DEMARC because I am worried that ... with mailing lists”. I wonder if we could take a moment to try it and see what happens?
>>>
>>>
>> Ummm..... yahoo changed their dmarc policy to p=reject, lots of mailing lists broke.  What experiment is it that you think we need to run?
> I guess we’re running it. I was hoping to avoid the “everything around broke” part.

Well.. I can certainly tell you that, as someone who supports a couple 
of dozen email lists, an awful lot broke - both for my users (who shared 
their pain with me) and for me, as an administrator. Lots of things 
stopped working, for lots of people, overnight - to me that fits the 
definition of "broke."

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