Re: DMARC -> CERT?

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Miles Fidelman
> <mfidelman () meetinghouse net> wrote:
> > Matthias Leisi wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Christopher Morrow <
> > > morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Scott Howard <scott () doc net au> wrote:
> > > > > Whilst I don't agree with the way that Yahoo has done this (particularly
> > > > > around communication),
> > > > how could they have communicated this better? how can we all learn from
> > > > this?
> > > They could have communicated, as in "listen folks, we are going to make a
> > > critical change that will affect mailing lists (etc...) in four weeks
> > > time".
> > >
> > > They could have made the change not late on a Friday afternoon (or well
> > > into the weekend for most of the world).
> > On the weekend before tax filings are due in the US!  And a couple of days
> > before Passover.
> and in the middle of Heartbleed.....
>
> It's enough to make you believe there was absolutely no care or
> concern for others.

And.. it's worth contrasting the community response to Heartbleed - 
which didn't actually cause widespread denial of service!

Miles



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