Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large open-source lists

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>Meanwhile, I'm still not proposing that we train users, or even 
>anti-spam software to "recognize" or "validate" mailing list addresses. 
>What I'm proposing is a way to send mail from a list with From: 
>@domain-of-list.tld so that it can pass DMARC/SPF/DKIM, and allow the 
>left side of the @ sign to identify the actual sender of the message.

Yes, that's the 1980s percent hack.  Do you really think it's a good
idea to reinvent it to get around the defects of the FUSSP du jour?

I agree that it's not plausible to train people to recognize mailing
list addresses.  But what you're proposing is to train people to be
phished, by telling them that a rewritten address from something that
looks sort of like a mailing list is equivalent to whatever the
original address was.  Given that DMARC is supposed to be an
anti-phishing tool, this completely defeats the point.

R's,
John





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