On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote:
So, I take it you prefer a world in which there's no sender validation, and receiving floods of spoofed sender email spam is just part of the price of being on the internet?
That is clearly not what this issue is about.
I'm finding myself vaguely annoyed that for so long people have complained that big mail providers need to clean up their act; and now, when one of them decides to respond to the complaints and start taking action to try to clean things up, the response seems to be "wait, we were happy just bitching and moaning--we didn't want you to actually *change* anything!"
What yahoo didn't do was first tell their users to unsubscribe from all mailinglists. DMARC hasn't cut down on yahoo spam so far. Yahoo's spam problem was (is?) centered on account hijacks. -Jim P.