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Re: responding to DMARC breakage


From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 13:12:36 -0400

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 10:12:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman said:

It occurs to me that Yahoo's deployment of DMARC p=reject, and the
choice of several big mail operators to honor that, has created a
situation not unlike a really routing table or nameserver, snafu ---
It's more like a peering war.  Time for somebody to either bake a cake,
or find alternate transit providers.

Aaargghhh - what a horrible, but accurate analogy. Worse probably - more like a peering war with a large broadband carrier, at the edge, where it's harder to find alternate transport.

Sigh..

Miles

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In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra



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