Hi Rik,
99% of the world don't own their own mail server, so your initial
objection hopelessly misses the point.
Just because you can't, after a few seconds of deliberation, think of
a reason why you might need to accept email from me (or anyone not
using SPF, or anyplace that SPF wrongly blocked) doesn't mean you
won't in future. Pretend you own a business, and don't just use email
for your friends, and you're selling stuff on the internet (widgets
that you sell 1 per week of, each making you $10,000 profit). How
happy are you going to be using SPF to automatically erase incoming
emails from strangers?
If you cannot understand why SPF needs to go away ASAP, you should at
least not be helping to spread it around!
Kind Regards,
Chris Drake
Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 11:02:35 PM, you wrote:
RvR> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Chris Drake wrote:
What advice are you giving to people implementing SPF as to their
legal risk when they trash legitimate customer emails?
RvR> I have no obligation whatsoever to accept any email from
RvR> you. My mail server is my private property and there is
RvR> no contract between us.
What the internet REALLY needs is an "I am not a spammer" system so
that me and the businesses I correspond with can buy a 100% guarantee
that our email will never be trashed by the crazy anti-spam rules that
you and everyone else is busy dreaming up all the time (and yeah -
with revocation so spammers can't abuse it).
RvR> Unless you come up with such a system and show us how
RvR> to implement it, I'll happily implement SPF.
RvR> I don't require you to implement SPF, since I have no
RvR> need to receive your email.
RvR> kind regards,
RvR> Rik
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