18 Apr
2023
18 Apr
'23
7:17 p.m.
Mail lists are harder to manage, and why forums and social media have
supplanted them. I have brought this same subject up before, but not
everyone seems to be interested in or has access to manage their DNS this
way in a practical manner. I throw this back at the CPANELs and such of
the world to make things like SPF and DKIM part of the account set up.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 2:27 PM Dennis Boone via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Folks,
As I try to track down why various subscribers are getting booted from
the list in the last couple of days, I'm noticing that a number of you
are subscribed from an address that forwards elsewhere.
This works poorly.
TL;DR follows, but basically this is brought to you by the fact that
modern email sucks almost as much because of the anti-spam processes as
because of the spam itself. In the modern world, forwarding is pretty
much dead on arrival. Avoid it where possible. I'll be over here
swearing right along with you.
TL;DR: to be able to deliver any email at all these days, we have to
comply with a couple of schemes designed to make it harder to forge mail
-- DKIM and SPF. The combined effect of making the necessary
declarations in the DNS entries for classiccmp.org is that if you try to
forward mail, you look like you're _impersonating_ classiccmp.org. Many
large providers (google, yahoo, etc.) refuse such mail.
The same anti-spam mechanisms also make it difficult to run a proper RFC
compliant mailing list, because then classiccmp.org would be sending
mail with _your_ From: address, making classiccmp.org look like an
impersonator. Still $w34ring.
Cheers,
De