On Feb 13, 2015, at 8:13 AM, Al Iverson <aiver...@spamresource.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Steve Atkins <st...@blighty.com> wrote: > >>> Such is life. Personally, I have no problem mangling or blocking messages >>> from users using a domain with a restrictive DMARC policy as needed. >> >> Mangling encourages bad behaviour. Blocking discourages it. > > Blocking, aka rejecting participation from legitimate users because of > their domain, might be easy for hobbyists to stomach, but is not > always the best path for an existing group or enterprise. It leaves > the affected end users feeling hurt and caught in the middle in a > scenario they can't easily change. (They certainly can't force AOL to > change DMARC policy and they may have legitimate reasons as to why > they don't wish to change mail providers.) I agree completely. Sometimes your requirements mean that you have to encourage bad behaviour. But it's good to be clear that that's what you're doing, and that you're making discussion lists less usable (forever) for everyone other than AOL and Yahoo users in the process. Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop
