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Re: Is AOL using SPF on all its servers? I think not

2004-06-02 14:26:19
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On Wednesday 02 June 2004 02:18 pm, Chuck Mead wrote:
Carl Hutzler said:
We do not use it to filter inbound at this time. We hope to do this
shortly.

Welp... for the same reasons as just about everyone else here I hope you
do... and soon! I see a huge weekly count of inbound mail bouncing back
to us that was never sent from us in the first place. There is no way
that implementing SPF inbound will not reduce the load of garbage on your
systems.


Give them some time. When you deal with the volume of email that they deal 
with, they have to take extra caution.

Also, if AOL screw up their implementation of inbound, that is going to be 
bad press. I know for executives at companies like, I dunno, Amazon, would 
see that and discourage SPF on inbound accordingly.

But if AOL gets it right, reports a reduction in spam, then people at other 
companies will be much more willing to jump on the bandwagon.

- -- 
Jonathan M. Gardner
Web Developer, Amazon.com
jonagard(_at_)amazon(_dot_)com
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