Comment Re:Mailing lists (Score 1) 139
All mailing lists that I am subscribed to have taken the more expedient option of banning Yahoo users from subscribing to their lists. This has the nice side-effect that it makes users switch to a more modern e-mail provider in the process. After everything was said and done, most users were actually quite thankful for this...
Guess what! It's people like yourself that make upgrading email virtually impossible. Congratulations on holding back the security of the email system for everyone, I hope you're pleased with yourself.
Mailing lists that rewrite people's email whilst refusing to resign it as themselves are doing a man in the middle attack on people's email. MITM attacks are bad, right? That's why browsers reject them. They make phishing easier, spam classification harder and generally make the email ecosystem worse. By doing the same thing as modern web browsers Yahoo is not being old and fusty as you imply, in fact, they are on the cutting edge. Believe me, if it weren't for the preponderance of awful decades-old mailing list managers other mail providers would already be doing the same thing.
The amazing features we get for these MITM attacks are
Not worth it, not even close. Please fix your mailing list instead.