On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 12:46:10PM -0400, Vivien M. wrote:
What you're basically saying is that if some domain is happy with the status
quo, YOU (who obviously know better about their email policy needs than they
do) are not going to let them specify the status quo in an SPF record
because YOU substituted your judgment for their administrators'.
No, they are being advised that if they continue with the status quo they
will eventually end up widely blacklisted. This is the way E-mail is going.
They can also choose not too publish SPF records. A great many domains will
never publish SPF records. They will also end up blacklisted (assuming SPF
ends up being widely deployed, that is). I'm sorry, but nothing as broken as
E-mail is today can stay the same, whether you're happy with it or not.
When many other people are making their domains harder to spoof, and
you aren't, you will eventually end up in blacklists. It's not anyone's
fault, no one particularly wants it to happen, but it will.
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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are
free." -- Johann W. Von Goethe