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Re: Mailing list membership.

2017-03-01 18:35:50

On 1 Mar 2017, at 20:34, David Morris <dwm(_at_)xpasc(_dot_)com> wrote:



On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Carsten Bormann wrote:

On 1 Mar 2017, at 20:18, Michael StJohns <mstjohns(_at_)comcast(_dot_)net> 
wrote:

eventually customize the confirm message based on provider

Better: Send the subscription confirmation message with attributes that 
cause a DMARC-honoring provider to discard it :-)
(No programming required :-)

No, that is worse as it insures support costs and more noise on this list.

I apologize for trying to inject some humor into this serious matter.

Silently dropping subscription requests isn’t very nice.  So there probably 
should be a second (DMARC-unencumbered) message telling people to expect the 
confirmation request message and to use a different mail system if it does not 
arrive.

I do not agree that actively preventing DMARC-honoring addresses from 
subscribing would be worse than the current situation, where the subscriber 
thinks they are on, only to be kicked off after a short while (or, worse, 
simply not receiving some of the messages).

Grüße, Carsten