David Lang writes: > On Fri, 16 May 2014, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > Have you looked into who's behind creating DMARC? AOL, Google, > > Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Comcast, and others. > > This isn't the first anti-spam creation those companies have created. > > Just because it exists doesn't mean that it's going to survive and be used > widely. > > Anything that breaks e-mail for this many users is something that I > don't expect to last too long. > > remember SPF records and how they were supposed to completely > eliminate spam? and how they had similar problems with mailing lists > and have now faded a bit, only to be replaced by this next attempt.
Many of the proponents of SPF, and now DMARC, are these large providers who have essentially captive user bases and a level of central control where they can require them to use only their systems to send mail using their domains. If you're an organization that doesn't have that level of centralization (such as, in my case, a university) then SPF or DMARC are much more problematic. You can't publish a restrictive SPF record for the domain as a whole because there are too many different subdomains operating essentially independently of any central IT organization, and publishing a non-restrictive SPF record is kind of pointless. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
