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From: owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com]On Behalf Of Mark
Shewmaker
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 2:35 PM
To: spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [spf-discuss] SPF and Responsibility
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 07:39, terry(_at_)greatgulfhomes(_dot_)com wrote:
You are correct in that the wording of the spec is misleading.
This is the current wording:
5.2 Pass
An SMTP server receiving this result SHOULD treat the message as
authentic. It may accept or reject the message depending on other
policies.
How is that misleading?
It's misleading because "the message is authentic" might be better worded as
"the sender domain of
the message is authentic"
And that's because I suspect to a lot of people authentic means:
(1) Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief
Rather then:
(2) Having a claimed and verifiable origin or authorship
(1) is what something like PGP does
(2) is really what SPF does
Terry Fielder
Manager Software Development and Deployment
Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
terry(_at_)greatgulfhomes(_dot_)com
Fax: (416) 441-9085
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Mark Shewmaker
mark(_at_)primefactor(_dot_)com
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