----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall(_at_)ehsco(_dot_)com>
To: "Greg Connor" <gconnor(_at_)nekodojo(_dot_)org>
Cc: <ietf-mxcomp(_at_)imc(_dot_)org>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 5:17 AM
Subject: Re: Backward compatibility with deployed SPF records (and choice of
domain)
On 6/26/2004 3:57 AM, Greg Connor wrote:
The reason _spf prefix was dropped from SPF was NON-technical, but
still an issue we should consider... people didn't understand it, and
some still believed underscore was illegal, etc.
underscore is illegal for hostnames. service names are not hostnames.
Did you see my message on this thread?
So the customer was right about his ISP saying it was illegal to use
_EP.hostname.com for a TXT record?
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Hector Santos, Santronics Software, Inc.
http://www.santronics.com