Re: [Waitman] Re: [spf-discuss] AOL to ESPs: Comply with SPF, Or Else

Hello

When a do due date is prescribed a news release to prweb.com should help 
get the word out. Many journalists pick up on these releases, and should 
report this kind of information.
I don't know about sending out email to every domain.

Waitman Gobble


Jonathan Gardner wrote:

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> On Friday 11 June 2004 02:46 am, Jon Kyme wrote:
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> > > Should we send an email to every postmaster@<domain> who hasn't
> > > published yet? We would describe SPF, the flag day for SPF, and why
> > > they need to publish very soon. We could also send instructions on some
> > > default configurations.
> > >      
> > An unsolicited mailshot to postmasters all over the world? Brilliant
> > idea, only a genius could have come up with this. Truly, a public
> > relations triumph is just around the corner.
> >
> >    
> I know it isn't exactly the best idea, but how else are we supposed to post 
> a formal notice to everyone who owns a domain and sends and receives email? 
> Which website does everyone who own a domain frequent? Which newspaper or 
> magazine do they read?
> If the postmaster account isn't used for this, then what is it used for?
>
> Sure, it may be unsolicited, but unsolicited in the same way that a subpeona 
> or a legal notice is unsolicited.
> It is hardly spam in the UCE sense.
>
> I am open to other suggestions. I would rather people had previous notice 
> that their emails will be ignored rather than silently dropping millions of 
> emails without giving due notice.
> The only other alternative is to send a message to postmasters who don't 
> publish SPF when you receive a message from them. It will be important that 
> it gets sent only once, however. In that sense, you would be informing 
> them, "Hey, I accepted your email this time. Come September 22, if you 
> don't publish SPF, I won't accept it."
> Then the followup on September 22 and afterwards: "I dropped your email 
> because you don't publish SPF records."
> - -- 
> Jonathan M. Gardner
> Mass Mail Systems Developer, Amazon.com
> jonagard(_at_)amazon(_dot_)com
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