On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:54 PM, jason fb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Isn't this DMARC issue a bellwether for the end of email lists as we know > them? It seems to me that the means of production (the internet backbone, > the mail servers, etc) are now owned by Big Media (Comcast, Walt Disney, CBS, > Viacom, Time Warner) and it is in their interest to make sure they can sell > as much advertising as possible to the cattle.
That statement is even more relevant when you consider that some of the biggest DMARC promoters offer (advertising revenue-based electronic communication) services that they have always believed to be a replacement for mailinglists. > People who operate Mailman servers (you guys) are just the little guys who > are helping people facilitate non-advertisable communication between the > masses. > > This seems like a poignant example of the fiction of the distributed network. > The last 15 years of the internet history (indeed, the first 15 years of > internet history) has been the story of the consolidation of control into the > hands of the few, not the open and egalitarian peer-to-peer network utopia > that the internet was touted to be in populist culture. > > If I really have something to say to someone, I write it using ink and paper, > put it in an envelope, put a stamp on it and drop it into an actual post box. > This way I know the NSA can't see it. The USPS publicly acknowledges (which makes one wonder what they haven't publicly acknowledged) that it regularly scans and saves postal envelopes (postcards too!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Isolation_Control_and_Tracking . 160 billion pieces in 2012, but don't worry it's only META data. -Jim P. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
