spf-discuss
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: implementation question

2004-01-14 09:02:16
wayne wrote:

It is ESSENTIAL that a ?all record fares no worse than no record in
spam checking, otherwise publishing SPF records INCREASES the
likelihood that some of a domain's outgoing mail will be treated as
spam, and people will refuse to implement it.


This kind of mild negative scoring was what softfail was for.  I think
we could bring back ~all without causing backwards incompatibility.

This was recently mentioned on spf-devel (and is probably material for that list).

My comments (summary: "no"):

http://archives.listbox.com/spf-devel(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200401/0006.html

        Wechsler

-------
Sender Permitted From: http://spf.pobox.com/
Archives at http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss/current/
Latest draft at http://spf.pobox.com/draft-mengwong-spf-02.9.4.txt
To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname(_at_)©#«Mo\¯HÝÜîU;±¤Ö¤Íµø?¡


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>