Re: (DMARC) How a whitelist would work, was Why mailing lists

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 18 April 2014 12:30 UTC

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:30:35 -0400
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>> Yeah.  It's clear from the DMARC summary reports I'm getting that the big mail systems already have a pretty good idea of where the mailing lists are,
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> They know about big lists. Maybe even IETF lists. But do they know about sandelman.ca? Do they know about @irtf.org?

Based on the DMARC reports I get (which are quite useful, independent of 
the policy stuff), I'm fairly sure they know about my tiny lists.

> I really don’t like specs that work well only for large companies.

Of course.  Who's suggesting that, other than perhaps Yahoo?

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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