Michael Hammer writes: > A person who used to be active in the email space once > told me that the extent to which messages are placed in > quarantine/junk/spam folders is a reflection of how well > or poorly the systems evaluating the mail work. If it works > really well then nothing should end up in quarantine /junk/spam > folders.
The number of messages sorted as "not sure" is hardly the best or only measure of how well the system works; to take the above to an extreme, if I reject all mail, does my system work perfectly? ;-) But yes, the ideal situation is where we sort every message correctly and unambiguously. Meanwhile... Even if we grant that "p=quarantine is a problem WE cause", the fact is that until we have a *good* solution for mailing lists, most of us don't dare publish p=reject, which leaves us with p=none, or no DMARC records at all. Which means that (a) many of us cannot benefit from using DMARC under the current circumstances, and (b) many sites don't have the resources to implement it yet, but we still have to deal with their mail. I'm not willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Anne. -- Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Sysadmin, ENCS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8 a...@encs.concordia.ca +1 514 848-2424 x2285 _______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc
