Re: DMARC methods in mailman --- [LEDE-DEV] DMARC related mass bounces / disabled subscriptions (fwd) Jo-Philipp Wich: [LEDE-DEV] DMARC related mass bounces / disabled subscriptions

[Ted Lemon <mellon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 17, 2016, at 8:20 AM, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The group you want to feel the pain are the administrators who add DMARC records, but other than spamming them with error reports, there’s not much we can do. I don’t think the administrators at Yahoo care too much whether their users are able to use IETF mailing lists or not.

Strictly speaking, what causes these providers pain is their customers leaving.   However, given that Yahoo recently had a billion accounts hacked, I suspect that the IETF’s DMARC settings are not going to provide any comparatively strong motivation for leaving.   And unfortunately one of the big DMARC sites is google.com; I really doubt anyone is going to quit their job at Google so they can participate in the IETF, and while we can certainly make it impossible for them to participate without using a different mail provider, the question is, is this the right way to spread the pain?

It’s certainly one of the options we discussed when this came up earlier.

BTW, speaking of obnoxious header munging, it would be a kindness, Randy Bush, if you would stop munging the headers on your replies to the IETF mailing list to say "IETF Disgust."   I find this really offensive, and consequently I have to go in and re-edit the name back to "IETF Discussion List" to undo your vandalism.   If the list so disgusts you, why not unsubscribe?