> On 30 Dec 2020, at 23:22, Jim Fenton <fen...@bluepopcorn.net> wrote:
> 
> On 29 Dec 2020, at 12:59, John Levine wrote:
> 
>> In article <14d833ce-0ae0-f818-fd4f-95769266a...@mtcc.com> you write:
>>> 
>>> On 12/29/20 12:10 PM, John Levine wrote:
>>>> A lot of tiny non-profits like Girl Scout troops use email addresses
>>>> at webmail providers and send their announcements through ESPs like
>>>> Constant Contact and Mailchimp.  This is yet another situation where
>>>> DMARC can't describe an entirely normal mail setup.
>>>> 
>>>> Constant Contact apparently got Yahoo to give them a signing key,
>>>> at least temporarily, but that doesn't scale.
>>> 
>>> What gmail does for gsuite is generates (or not, who knows) a key and
>>> gives you the selector to add to your dns. I don't see why that doesn't
>>> scale for all situations.
>> 
>> To point out the obvious, because they use a single address at
>> yahoo.com or gmail.com or hotmail.com, not a private domain. These are
>> tiny organizations that don't have a lot of computer expertise nor a
>> lot of need for it.
> 
> But these Girl Scout troops are going to publish a DMARC policy despite their 
> lack of expertise?

Many Girl Scout troops were affected when Yahoo published p=reject. Which is 
probably why John brought it up. This isn’t a hypothetical, this is things that 
we know actually happened and real world effects of DMARC. 

laura 

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