At 09:14 AM 6/5/2004 -0400, you wrote:
I don't know how slow and "Telco-like" many of the ISP's are in the
States or elsewhere, but one of the largest ISP's here in Canada (whom
also happen to be the Telco for British Columbia, and Alberta), have
been publishing SPF records for some time, and having dealt previously
with various aspects of this organization in the past I can't tell you
how shocked I was to see them publishing SPF records for they are
without a doubt the slowest moving, red-tape-entangled, and often
appearing dead to reality, ISP I've ever had the misfortune to use
service from or to have business dealings with.
The company I'm referring to by the way is Telus (formerly BC Tel).
There is even a running joke around here something along the lines of
"Telus what you want so we can !(_at_)#$ it up". Moral of the story here, if
they are publishing, it sounds like its not too much of a stretch to get
(IMO) most other ISP/Telco's to publish. There is a lot of pressure on
(at least here in Canada) between ISP's to deliver SPAM relief to
customers. SMTP Anti-Forgery certainly falls under this category.
It might be worth while to cite what other (insert appropriate
motivational descriptor here) ISP's are doing as a motivation...
Cheers,
James
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James Couzens,
Programmer
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Well that's only partially true. They have published for <telus.com> (the
commercial end) but not <telus.net> (the ISP service). But you are 100%
correct about the rest.
J.A. Coutts