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

As an administrator of a corporate mail system who has on occasion received
50,000+
SPAM messages in a day, I CAN see the value of simply chucking them in the bit
bucket
where they belong rather than generating rejections for content and suffering
the
repeated retries to disabled or non-existant spoofed spam senders.

Dan Boresjo wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:56 am, Chris Drake wrote:
> > I hate spam, but just like 99% of all other business email users, I
> > can *never* afford to loose even as much as *one* email - EVER.
> >
> > I strongly object to you guys forcing my ISP to trash my incoming
> > email without my permission.  I VERY strongly object to you guys
> > forcing my recipients ISP to trash my incoming emails without my
> > permission.
> The problem you are worried about is one that exists with current anti-spam
> solutions that accept mail and then trash it without either delivering it or
> generating a proper bouce. SPF will _fix_ that problem.
>
> With SPF deployed, there should _never_ be an instance where mail is
accepted
> by an MTA and subsequently 'silently swallowed'.
>
> SPF will enable the orginal SMTP principle of 'reliability is paramount' to
> actually become common practice once again.
>
> BTW, I entirely and strongly agree with your point that swallowing any mail
> after acceptance without generating a proper failure notice is totally
> unacceptable.
>
> - Dan
>
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