Re: [dmarc-ietf] Suggestion: can we test DEMARC deployment with a mailin

On May 5, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Miles Fidelman 
<mfidelman(_at_)meetinghouse(_dot_)net> wrote:

> Fred Baker (fred) wrote:
> > On May 5, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Miles Fidelman 
> > <mfidelman(_at_)meetinghouse(_dot_)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.”
And what comes quickly to mind is the comment, earlier in this thread, that “we 
have been running it for nine years.”

Running it, perhaps, but not learning from it. Kind of “Really Not The Point”.

Other comments withheld for an opportunity in the presence of adult beverages. 
Lots of them.

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