[170851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Thu Apr 10 15:23:16 2014
From: "Kee Hinckley" <nazgul@marrowbones.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:22:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: <5346A187.50107@dcrocker.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10 Apr 2014, at 9:49, Dave Crocker wrote:
> Unfortunately, that has no relationship to do with the current
> situation. Again: Yahoo was fully aware of the implications of its
> choice.
I suspect they looked at the amount of spam they could stop, the number
of Yahoo email users, and the number of Yahoo users using mailing lists,
and said "That's just noise, it doesn't matter."
It happens to be very loud noise, but it's still tiny compared to the
overall number of email users.
