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

Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> Tue, 15 April 2014 03:12 UTC

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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?
>
>
That really is a great question.

I guess the one that immediately follows is - why has there not been a 
strong call for them to do so?

Miles



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