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Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Wed Apr 9 20:24:32 2014

In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGUMF5t-a014uLr7FPmWScs=4ddKqVd8P-JSSxVczFU6oQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 20:19:53 -0400
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:12 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:11 PM,  <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
>>         and just how is an algorithm supposed to detect that
>>         <jeff-kell@utc.edu> is a single human and not a list?
>
> If the autoresponder is sane, it looks for:
>
> List-Id: North American Network Operators Group <nanog.nanog.org>
> List-Unsubscribe: <http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/options/nanog>,
>  <mailto:nanog-request@nanog.org?subject=unsubscribe>
> List-Archive: <http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/>
> List-Post: <mailto:nanog@nanog.org>
> List-Help: <mailto:nanog-request@nanog.org?subject=help>
> List-Subscribe: <http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog>,
>  <mailto:nanog-request@nanog.org?subject=subscribe>
> Precedence: list

and if the autoresponder/MUA is smart it only autoresponds where To:
is the target address.

-Jim P.


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