Mail lists are harder to manage, and why forums and social media have supplanted them. I have brought this same subject up before, but not everyone seems to be interested in or has access to manage their DNS this way in a practical manner. I throw this back at the CPANELs and such of the world to make things like SPF and DKIM part of the account set up.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 2:27 PM Dennis Boone via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Folks, > > As I try to track down why various subscribers are getting booted from > the list in the last couple of days, I'm noticing that a number of you > are subscribed from an address that forwards elsewhere. > > This works poorly. > > TL;DR follows, but basically this is brought to you by the fact that > modern email sucks almost as much because of the anti-spam processes as > because of the spam itself. In the modern world, forwarding is pretty > much dead on arrival. Avoid it where possible. I'll be over here > swearing right along with you. > > TL;DR: to be able to deliver any email at all these days, we have to > comply with a couple of schemes designed to make it harder to forge mail > -- DKIM and SPF. The combined effect of making the necessary > declarations in the DNS entries for classiccmp.org is that if you try to > forward mail, you look like you're _impersonating_ classiccmp.org. Many > large providers (google, yahoo, etc.) refuse such mail. > > The same anti-spam mechanisms also make it difficult to run a proper RFC > compliant mailing list, because then classiccmp.org would be sending > mail with _your_ From: address, making classiccmp.org look like an > impersonator. Still $w34ring. > > Cheers, > > De >
