As I had indicated in a previous post, I expected that AOL might follow Yahoo
in publishing p=reject as a means of mitigating a
specific type of abuse they were experiencing.
http://postmaster-blog.aol.com/2014/04/22/aol-mail-updates-dmarc-policy-to-reject/
This certainly confirms the theory that the members of the DMARC
cartel believe that they have sufficient market power to force
everyone else to bear the costs of the collateral damage of their
poorly targeted anti-abuse efforts. Who knows, they might even be
right.
In AOL's case, I presume it's because it's become painfully apparent
that crooks are stealing vast numbers of AOL address books and
spamming to them from the matching AOL user addresses. This is loudly
slamming the barn door after the horse left. Too bad for all the
people whose feet were crushed as they did so.
R's,
John