[Coco] i am a member

[William Astle]

Okay, people. It's great that people are sticking up for Josh but let's 
see if we can let the argument die down, shall we?

That said, I'm going to contribute to the noise with some facts.

First: Josh is *NOT* the one doing this. Nobody is hacking the list. It 
isn't somehow magically open. Josh is not setting his from address to 
'Josh Harper via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>'. It is being done by the 
mailing list software in self defense.

Second: this is happening due to something called DMARC and the specific 
manner in which Yahoo and some other operators have chosen to implement 
it. See the link below for more information or consult your favourite 
search engine for "DMARC" and "mailing list".

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg87153.html

The gist is that with the specific DMARC configuration Yahoo publishes, 
it is impossible to reliably deliver email from Yahoo email addresses to 
subscribers on mailing lists without changing the From address to be 
something other than a Yahoo address. Hence rewriting the From address 
to be the list address - the only address the list software knows it 
controls legitimately.

The only other option is to ban all subscribers from users of email 
services such as Yahoo that publish such DMARC policies. That would be a 
lot more problematic in the long run since it would remove a large 
percentage of subscribers from most mailing lists.

For the record, what the Coco list does is about the least bad option 
and it is employed by many other list operators.


On 2015-07-02 16:35, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> From: Josh Harper via Coco<coco at maltedmedia.com>
>
> Is what he posts with.
>
> Not at all like his real e-mail address he has subscribed to the list with.
>
> Mine is:
>
> From: "Stephen H. Fischer"<SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>