On Thu, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Franck Martin <fmar...@iinkedin.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Jim Popovitch <jim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Brandon Long <bl...@google.com> wrote: >>> There's magic sauce to try and split hairs, and it's not perfect. >> >> Yep, that is why I mentioned it. Let me ask: does your company split >> hairs because the spec is possibly flawed, or is this a case of bad >> implementation? I only ask because I've been following DMARC for >> years now, and the general consensus has always been that the spec is >> golden, the spec supporters are gods, and any problems are due to >> ignorant implementations. All along I've been yelling that the spec >> was flawed and the spec supporters didn't understand email as a >> communications tool. But hey, I'm not expecting to get an official G >> response, just musing... > > > Exactly how is it flawed? >
It's flawed because it can be bypassed by spoofed domains with huge SPF blocks using font specific character substitutions, such that domain holders have no real faith in the time/effort spent to implement it because in the end they still have to police the whole web looking for, and commenting on, how their name/mark is being represented. -Jim P. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop
