hi

     Under the Obama and Trump administrations, the US State Dept had a
     phone
     number for journalists to contact. It has since been removed; the
     website now instructs: email [1]PAPressDuty@state.gov.
     I looked up the old State Dept phone number and called it. The voice
     recording told me the same thing: email [2]PAPressDuty@state.gov.

   this situation sounds like news itself.  I wonder what influences
   resulted in it.

     Monday I emailed.
     Didn't get a reply until yesterday.
     The reply I got was (among other error message stuff that appears
     general/unhelpful): "<[3]PAPressDuty@state.gov>: TLSA lookup error
     for
     [4]stimson.state.gov:25"

   i'm too outdated to know the answer in depth, but of course 25 is SMTP.
   TLSA is briefly mentioned
   at [5]https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-fanf-dane-smtp-04.html from a
   websearch for "smtp tlsa".
   Looks like whatever server sent your reply was unable to verify the
   identity of the referenced mail server, because the DNS servers they
   contacted didn't validate it.  This would most likely be an issue with
   the dns servers or maintenance of the domain, but is also possibly
   something malicious in the mail communication path.
   But I only glanced at the first paragraph of that document.
   Others on this list are more familiar with TLSA than I am.  Be nice to
   know how accurate my reply is.

     So I'm wondering if anyone can interpret the technical significance
     of
     such an error for me.
     Predictable paint-by-numbers opinion blatherings by crazed and/or
     paid
     losers will be ignored.
     Doug

References

   1. mailto:PAPressDuty@state.gov
   2. mailto:PAPressDuty@state.gov
   3. mailto:PAPressDuty@state.gov
   4. http://stimson.state.gov:25/
   5. https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-fanf-dane-smtp-04.html