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

On Saturday 12 Jun 2004 13:07, Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo wrote:
> I'm taking numbers out of the air right now, but maybe about 99.9% of
> hosting providers (i.e. almost all of them) use third party automation
> tools. The big three of automation tools ('control panel' in hosting lingo)
> are: cpanel (http://cpanel.net), ensim (http://www.ensim.com) and plesk
> (http://www.plesk.com). The 0.01% skilled enough to develop their own
> control panel probably already know how to implement SPF.
>
> Instead of hosting providers, we need to approach the makers of these
> 'hosting control panel'. If they are convinced to implement SPF, we'll see
> maybe about 20-30 million domains with SPF record in less than 6 months,
> that should be enough critical mass before the rest of the world will
> embrace SPF. I think 20-30 million of small domains will make a lot bigger
> impact than a single aol.com trying to convince the rest of the world
> single handedly.
Sounds good to me - it's all about getting one or two big parties to add SPF 
support and telling them that support looks like a "competitive advantage" to 
their market - that will trigger the other players to add SPF support as 
"catch up", and you get a nice systemic domino effect. I was suggesting the 
largest hosting companies (which I think write their own control panels) but 
persuading the control panel writers themselves may be easier and more 
effective.

Now who can get a persuasive word to any of the top shared hosting companies
 - RackSpace
 - Interland
 - 1and1
 - HostWay
 - Verio

or to the leading hosting automation providers
 - cpanel
 - ensim
 - plesk

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Tim