Hi Stuart,
Earthlink sounds like they are exceptionally clued-up. A few
innocent bystanders getting inapropriate notices is a fair and
reasonable price to pay for the EXCEPTIONALLY USEFUL facility to warn
senders when emails they've sent might not get read by the intended
recipient.
SPF is not widespread enough yet to adopt, and you lot still haven't
agreed on a final spec anyhow, so it's unfair to suggest Earthlink are
doing anythng except the right and honorable thing in this situation.
This is all assuming that you're net getting these things in response
to email you're sending - you should have made that clear in your
post - or better still - not posted at all. This is an SPF mailling
list. We all know what SPF is for (well - taht is "all" - excluding
those who keep posting messages talking about "spam").
Kind Regards,
Chris Drake
Monday, August 9, 2004, 2:43:52 AM, you wrote:
SDG> I am getting a lot of these stupid messages. Who can we write to at
SDG> Earthlink to explain that whitelisting sender addresses doesn't do a lick
SDG> of good and only annoys innocent bystanders - unless they authenticate the
SDG> sender first (i.e. with SPF, SES, or DK).
SDG> Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 08:26:04 -0700
SDG> From: automated-response(_at_)earthlink(_dot_)net
SDG> Reply-To: nobody(_at_)earthlink(_dot_)net
SDG> To: stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com
SDG> Subject: Re: Status
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