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On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 18:07:47 +0000
Martijn Grooten <martijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Martijn,
{DMARC policy}
>I've long agreed with you and even argued this way in IETF groups. I've
>come to change my mind and see that the DMARC setting helped them fight
>abuse taking place at that very moment, at a relatively minor cost (very
>few people use mailing lists).
Insofar as it doesn't affect them, or their customers, yes. Potentially,
it affects everybody else. I disagree that that constitutes 'relatively
minor cost'.
>> In the end though, I think big business is trying to kill of email -
>> simply because it's extremely hard to monetise.
>I don't think Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and many other local webmail
>providers would agree with that. Email is relatively cheap to run
I said email, and that's what I meant. Webmail <> email, at least, not
in this context.
>> I trust you mean by that that all email should be encrypted, rather
>> than the more common usage of 'plain text vs HTML'.
>I actually meant unencrypted data in general, whether it's SMTP, HTTP or
>something else.
Ah, understood. A good idea. One which almost all governments will
detest.
>Yes, email has some fundamental issues when it comes to security in
>general and encryption in particular. I hope we can slowly replace it
>with something better.
Only time will tell, obviously. In any case, such a change would have
to be available to all, as email currently is. Proprietary offerings
that exclude/ignore various hardware platforms should be non-starters.
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