Re: Lawsuits, angry business users, and SPF stupidity.

Chris Drake wrote:

> 99% of the world don't own their own mail server, so your initial
> objection hopelessly misses the point.
And 99%of the world are fed up with spam.

> 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.
You seem to have missed the point of SPF. It *cannot* wrongly block 
mail, because any mail it blocks is being sent in contravention of the 
sender's domain's policy. Therefore, if it blocks a mail, it is right to 
do so.
> 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 own that sort of business, you should have your own mail server. 
You can then choose whether or not to implement blocking with SPF. Once 
SPF (hopefully) becomes widespread, people will have such trouble 
sending mail improperly, via non-approved servers, that they *will* all 
come into line, and a previously-open method for spamming will have been 
blocked.
> If you cannot understand why SPF needs to go away ASAP, you should at
> least not be helping to spread it around!
Do you really understand the principles behind SPF? This is not mail 
blocking with an arbitrary, open-loop set of rules: this is allowing the 
  recipient to implement a rigid set of rules set by the sender's 
domain. So long as the sender follows their domain's rules, SPF won't 
get in your way.
--
Mark.
mark(_at_)tranchant(_dot_)plus(_dot_)com
http://tranchant.plus.com/

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