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

2004-06-12 02:14:57
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:06:59AM +0100, Tim Meadowcroft wrote:
If this starts to get the message thru to big hosting companies then OK, but 
Interland flatly refuse to let me add SPF records to the domains they host 
for me, and I don't think 1&1 do either (to name the 2 biggest shared windows 
hosting providers) - there are a lot of small domains out there who don't 
control their DNS records except thru web control panels. And we don't have 
sufficient weight to influence these big hosting companies. "Vote with your 
feet" only works when you can go somewhere that DOES support SPF.

But when we get the first big hosting company to add "Automatic SPF support 
for your domains" to their feature list, then I expect that will trigger a 
flood of other hosters playing catch-up.

You'll know we're winning when the "search for a hosting service" sites like 
  http://www.hostcompare.com/advancedsearch.htm
include an "SPF Support" checkbox.

Actually, wouldn't it be enough to have DNS-providers that support spf?
I mean you wouldn't have to move your hosting elsewhere, you only need
to transfer your domain to the other dns-provider.

I think perhaps we could even set something up if a couple of biggies on
the list have some spare space (&bandwidth) to host dns servers.
Unfortunately I'm not one of the biggies, I can't spare much bandwidth
on my dns servers.

Koen Martens

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