Re: AOL to ESPs: Comply with SPF, Or Else

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:37:46AM -0700, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
| > for.  There was also a significant boost in SPF publishing after the
| > Spam Conference at MIT in January.  More events like that where system
| > and email admins gather would be appropriate.  Those who have press
| > contacts should be keeping them up to date on flag days and such.  There
| > are a number of other avenues that can be taken, perhaps even including
| > a separate marketing fund that SPF could maybe take donations for?
| 
| So we just keep doing what we are doing because obviously it is working to 
| the point where AOL feels confident in it.

Yes, let's make sure the SPF community are well represented
at industry events like ISPcon and LISA and so on.  We can
set a goal: at every upcoming conference, at least one panel
should have at least one speaker who will spread the word
about SPF.  I know this is true for http://www.etcevent.com/
thanks to Greg Connor; we need to make sure other
conferences are handled also.

Now, in the worst case, it's possible for a company to buy a
T1 and a modem bank and install unix servers and call itself
an ISP without ever subscribing to any industry magazines or
go to any industry conferences ... but they have to run MTA
software.  So let's also try to get SPF into the standard
distribution of as many MTAs as possible, and turned on by
default, too.  On this front we can also aim to get SPF TXT
entries inside default config files for DNS software.