MWW> On the plus side, publishing SPF will help their mail get
MWW> past other spam filtersr, which are a source of false
MWW> positives on their own.
... except for anyone using Baysian filters (eg: Netscape / Mozilla /
Thunderbird MUAs), where the SPF headers will direct the email to the
junk folder...
Oh yeah - and everyone who uses a forwarding service, or a ".forward"
unix file etc, who simply won't get their emails in the first place...
We need to be a little more transparent guys: SPF is nice, but it is
not without problems. There's a little bit too much "false
representation" creeping into the whole SPF "pr" thing. Loads of
people inferring that it's going to be good for fighting spam, and
more than a passing number of people suggesting that it's not going to
have false-positive problems (and I've also read anecdotes from people
saying they've "never had even one false positive" which were either
incorrect statements, or were not sufficiently researched that they
should have made the statement in the 1st place).
"Be nice to people" includes "be honest".
Kind Regards,
Chris Drake