hymie! wrote in <20190927142152.GA21834@alfred.local.net>:
|On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 02:54:14AM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote:
|> Ken Hornstein wrote on 2019-09-26 09:36:
|>> I received this email, and I wanted to pass it along. The executive
|>> summary is: in the near future subject lines to nmh-workers will no
|>> longer be prefixed with "[nmh-workers]" and there won't be a footer
|>> at the end of the message anyone saying that this is the nmh-workers
|>> mailing list.
|>
|> yahoo is way off the reservation with this. they aren't growing fast \
|> enough
|> for me to care which of their users can't join mailing lists i operate \
|> -- so
|> my first mover advantage dominates the outcome.
|
|Unfortunately, Yahoo isn't the only culrpit. More and more servers are
|honoring DMARC. I, for example, keep my email on my own server at home,
|but because my ISP blocks port 25, I have to hire a third party to
|receive and re-send my email for me, both incoming and outgoing. I'm
|(mostly) at their mercy for things like spam filters and DMARC, and
|(at least right now) I'm not in a position to find a new company
|if I decide I'm not crazy about their policies.
|
|I appreciate your opinion, but remember to look at it from the other
|side -- what is the point of a mailing list if you're the only person
|left who can access it?
But that makes me wonder a bit: how much does that cost?
Isn't it cheaper to rent the smallest possible vserver, and simply
mirror the local server, then adjust one line of configuration, or
two?
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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