Re: Mailing lists - assumptions

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 03:33:24PM -0500, Pete Resnick wrote:
> On 4/18/14 3:26 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> >So you're OK with mailing list administrators telling yahoo.com users,
> >if you want to continue participating on this mailing list, you'll
> >have to change e-mail providers?
> 
> So let's get all of the assumptions straight here. You're talking
> about one of two scenarios:
> 
> 1. Yahoo adopts the new mechanism, but the mailing list
> administrator is unwilling to adopt the new mechanism, and Yahoo
> continues to say, "If mail didn't come directly from me or have the
> magic mailing list token, p=reject".
> 
> 2. Yahoo is unwilling to adopt the new mechanism, whatever the
> mailing list administrator wants to do, and Yahoo continues to say,
> "If the mail didn't come directly from me, p=reject".
> 
> Yes, in both of those cases, I'm OK with those MLs bouncing the mail
> and MLAs telling yahoo.com users to go switch.

or....

3.  It's going to take months or years to come up with a new
specification and to get it deployed, and in the mean time, there will
be people who don't have the luxury of waiting for Godot.

Basically, there will be people who need a short-term fix, and are we
really satisified with the Mailman:

From: Pete Resnick <[email protected]>

workaround?

I know I'm not....

					- Ted

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