Re: EAI and ADSP/DMARC

"John Levine" <[email protected]> writes:

> PS: This still doesn't mean that there's any reason to change your mail
> system to do what DMARC wants unless you also want to.  It's useful for
> protection against a narrow category of forged mail that fakes famous
> domains, not very useful otherwise.  In particular, other than the
> statistics gathering, it's useless for domains that have live users who
> do typical live user stuff like forwarding their mail to gmail and
> replying from there or using send-to-a-friend on a newspaper web site.

Like, for example, every higher-ed institution.

Few of the people who come on this mailing list with the new anti-spam or
anti-forgery or anti-whatever system du jour and that other uses of mail
really need to take their system into account realize that they have
dozens of predecessors who have, over the years, come on this list to say
exactly the same thing about many similar schemes.  Most of which no one
even remembers today.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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