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Re: Suggestion: can we test DMARC deployment with a mailing list?

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Sat, 03 May 2014 02:08 UTC

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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: can we test DMARC deployment with a mailing list?
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On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 08:33:15PM -0400, John R Levine wrote:
> >If you think about the inventives of the entities in question, it's
> >really not that surprising.  Yahoo and AOL will want to force people
> >to use their web-based forums, ...
> 
> In this case, I find ineptness as least as plausible as malice:
> 
> http://jl.ly/Email/aoldmarc.html

Perhaps, but given the economic incentives, once their ineptness are
pointed out, I don't hold out much chance that they will change their
behavior.

					- Ted

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