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Re: AOL Spam down 27%

2004-03-29 19:15:13
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:11 -0500, David Brodbeck wrote:
I do *publish* an SPF record for my domain, since that takes minimal
effort and doesn't get into the problem of losing legitimate mail.

It does, however, lead to the possibility that other people will lose
_your_ legitimate outgoing mail. Which is why I haven't published an SPF
record either. 

Publish a ?all record: this allows the generated SPF results to be
checked by tools like SpamAssassiin or CRM114 without actually
blocking your non-SPF-complient email.

You'll note that even aol.com and pobox.com have records which end in
'?all', which is largely equivalent to not publishing a record at all.

Not true. See above.

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                                Nico Kadel-Garcia
                                Systems Engineer
                                Mitsubish Electric Research Lab
                                <nkadel(_at_)merl(_dot_)com>


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