Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
And I think most of French people do not read any english written
journals. And I do not know if there are any articles in the french
written journals like in the Linux Journal about SPF. So French people
perhaps simply do not know SPF.
There are many regions where this applies - and this is also the reason
why SPF will be deployed in steps and over several years, no matter what
you do.
The amount of information that does NOT cross language boundaries is
enormous, also within technical areas like mailservers. Sometimes it's
because the number of people in a language region doesn't rise above a
certain critical level, and sometimes it's because the language doesn't
make the buzzwords sound good. A good example is that the two different
words for "no costs" and "no boundaries" both translate into one word in
English ("free"). Also, the words for electronic mail and snail-mail are
both "mail" in English, unlike many other languages. "Spam" is a word,
that about 50% of all mail server admins, I know, don't know a definition
for and they also don't know the origin of the word. There is no local
translation.
The simplest way to filter away a lot of spam around here, is to remove
all e-mails that contain a $-sign - it's a sign that doesn't occur in
99,9% of most people's e-mails. For most people here, a bayesian filter
like popfile does an excellent job - after categorizing just two e-mails,
most people will have a spamfiltering accuracy above 99% - everything that
contains English words goes into the spam bucket, and everything else
isn't spam. This reduces the need for SPF a lot for most people.
And one more thing: Almost no mail server admin around here knows the
concept of "flag days".
Lars.