[170811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Wed Apr 9 19:23:16 2014
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 18:22:51 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <nyDg1n00S1Una3W01yDhiV>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/9/2014 5:11 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?
It is really too bad that there is not place to put a "precedence" that
the software could key on--with values like "bulk" or "junk" or "list".
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