Dean Anderson <dean(_at_)av8(_dot_)com> wrote:
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First, I'd like to thank Dean for forwarding a private message to a
public list.
Someone was saying on-list that the objective of SPF isn't to reduce spam.
I was just discussing that subject off-list. If MTA authorization doesn't
reduce spam, there is little purpose to the MARID WG, as the MARID charter
indicates.
In your opinion.
Tools may be intended for one purpose, but still be effective in
others. Ask anyone who's used a dime to turn a screw.
FYI: from the MARID charter
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/marid-charter.html
It's nice to quote things out of context. The sentence before the
one you quoted qualifies the remarks in your quote:
"The primary current use case for this facility is to allow recipient
MTAs to confirm that peer MTAs' actions are authorized by
specific domains or networks. "
For me, the charter is clear: MTA authorization is the goal, any
anti-spam benefit may be a known side-effect.
Alan DeKok.