[170805] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Wed Apr 9 18:20:59 2014
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:20:26 -0400
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140409221112.GA3069@vacation.karoshi.com>
Cc: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>,
Dave Crocker <dcrocker@bbiw.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/9/2014 6:11 PM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 05:49:27PM -0400, Jeff Kell wrote:
>> The most "sane" out-of-mind response should only be sent *if* the
>> out-of-mind person is named explicitly as a recipient in the RFC822
>> header. Anything To: somelist@somehost does not qualify :)
>>
>> Jeff
> and just how is an algorithm supposed to detect that
> <jeff-kell@utc.edu> is a single human and not a list?
Because *I* set the out-of-office notification for my email
address[es]. If I'm not in the recipient list, do not respond. This is
a "per user" knob we are talking about here, so it knows darn well what
address[es] are me.
Jeff
