On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 03:36:34PM -0700, ned+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> No, because those postings will bounce, and cause those users to get > >> unsubscribed from the list. > > >But in this case, we're talking about the p=quarantine policy that > >Google published for google.com... No bouncing (and hence no automatic > >unsubscription, unless a receiver interprets p=quarantine as 'please > >reject'). > > Fair point. My observation about the appropriate acronym stands, however. And some of us have already pointed out internally that this might cause engineers at Google (including folks like Vint) to not be able to participate on external mailing lists as effectively, since some percentage of the mailing list recipients might not receive their message. And if that means a Google engineer tries to send a patch to an upstream open source maintainer via a mailing list, and the maintainer doesn't see the patch or bug report because it got silently dropped by their MTA (or put in some spam/junk folder), well, that's Google's loss, and not necessarily the open source project's problem. Me, I use a non-google.com e-mail address for my external mailing list discussions, so it's not going to be a problem for me. :-) - Ted