At 06:37 PM 8/25/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Matthew(_dot_)van(_dot_)Eerde(_at_)hbinc(_dot_)com wrote:
Everyone will make their own choices, and we no
longer really have a standardized, predictable response. The whole
thing becomes much more non-deterministic. Different sites will be
treating the same SPF record completely differently.
This is a good thing. Different people have differing levels of
paranoia.
I don't see it as a good thing. It would mean that when you published
an SPF record, you would have to guess at how people were going to
interpret it. It makes it a lot riskier.
It is not a good thing because corporations are going to ask themselves, "what
is the risk cost/benefit analysis"?
A few may "go out on limb" (early adopters) but if results are not predictable
(too many customers complaining), then you will get backlash that is very
difficult to crawl back from.
Much better to deal with it correctly now than later.