On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 spf(_at_)nevster(_dot_)net wrote:
Again, Meng, thank you for the pointers. My preference is strongly in
favour TMDA right now. Perhaps SPF can integrate with it somehow...
Please! Please! Please stop TMDA installations from sending their
stupid confirmation email for messages with SPF fail (i.e. that I
never sent)! I am conflicted over whether to report these to my
Bayesian filter. If I don't report them, I will continue to be
annoyed. If I do report them, then when I eventually really do
send mail to a TMDA user, I'll never see the confirmation email.
Seriously, before SPF, I considered TMDA the slime of spammers:
on a par with those insanely stupid anti-virus filters constantly
sending me their spam in the name of being anti-spam.
But, if every TMDA installation would refrain from sending responses
for messages that fail SPF, then they could part of the solution instead
of part of the problem. It would encourage SPF publishers to maximize
their FAIL coverage. Now if we could only get those virus filters to
do the same thing. And mailing lists. I get dozens of messages from
mailing lists every day asking whether I really subscribed to
dorks-interest(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)
The more end user mailing lists, TMDA filters, virus filters, etc
we can get to use SPF to avoid spamming innocent parties, the more pressure
there will be to publish SPF records with -all.
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Stuart D. Gathman <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
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