[OSList] OSList bounces

[Gail West via OSList]

How frustrating to have someone dare to attempt to shut down our space!  A
very deep bow to you, Harold, for keeping our life-line open [?]

Gail

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:29 PM, christine koehler via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Thanks Harold for taking care of this list. Obviously this is not an easy
> task.
>
> What would our community be without people  who care like you do ?
>
> Christine
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>>  I'm not sure what's exactly triggering this issue from Raffi's emails,
>> but it happened again.
>>
>> Yesterday 191 accounts were disabled when Raffi's email was bounced. They
>> all seemed to be Google emails. I think I reinstated all those accounts. If
>> you are getting this message - no need to do anything. Alas, if you're not,
>> ... not much I say here will make any difference.
>>
>> But Raffi emailed the list again today. Another festival of bounces in my
>> inbox. This time, the google/gmail accounts seemed to be ok. But many
>> Yahoo, MSN, Sympatico, Comcast and other accounts bounced Raffi's email -
>> and the OSList disabled their accounts. Again, one by one, I re-enabled
>> them today. If you see this email - no action needed.
>>
>> The email companies like Google, Yahoo, etc. are implementing something
>> called DMARC to prevent spam. Gory details:
>> http://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690
>>
>> Apparently this is not an easy thing to fix. More gory details.
>> http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/DMARC. For now - I have changed Raffi's
>> account so I have to moderate anything he sends. I'm trying another
>> experiment where the From field is changed - so this note doesn't say From
>> Harold in your email program. I don't think this is acceptable - but I'm
>> testing it.
>>
>> It looks like there is a better solution in a newer version of the
>> software we are using for the OSList. I'll see if I can get our web hosting
>> company to deploy that software - but it might take a while.
>>
>> Alas, I wish I could guarantee no further glitches. I'll keep you updated.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Harold
>>
>>
>> --
>> Harold Shinsato
>> harold at shinsato.com
>> http://shinsato.com
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