Re: Mailing lists - assumptions

> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 02:43:41PM -0700, Jim Fenton wrote:
> > On 4/18/14 1:26 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > > 25% of the
> > > governing board of my church are yahoo.com users.  I'm not sure I can
> > > tell them all that they have to switch to gmail.com.
> >
> > I wouldn't tell them to switch to GMail, or any other big provider
> > they'd be tied to. I'd tell them to register domains that they can host
> > elsewhere (on a big provider if they want) so they can switch providers
> > if/when needed. Similarly, many users are stuck with ISPs they dislike
> > because that's where their email address is hosted.

> Unfortunately, that's beyond the technological capabilities of many
> people....  if there was a really easy, and relatively cheap, way to
> do this, I'd recommend it without hesitation.

> Some universities offer their alumni "email forwarding for life".
> That's a solution that would work for some.  Unfortunately, not for
> the less technically savvy.

Alas, it's a solution that interacts poorly with SPF, which is also in the
mix. There are better technical alternatives to address SPF issues with
forwarders than there are to address DKIM issues with mailing lists, but
even so it's not a panacea.

				Ned

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