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Re: Apache Foundation and SenderID

2004-09-03 13:30:08
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:38:48PM -0400, guy wrote:
| 
| 2. SPF records are optional.  This is crazy.  Maybe for now, but again, by
| say 2006 SPF should be required.  MX records are required (I think) to
| receive email.  So there is nothing wrong with having a requirement to send
| email.  Sure, not today, but sometime in the future.  Also, the SPF record
| should become a new record type, and stop using the TXT record at some pint
| in time.  After all, most domains never process email.
| 

perhaps we can say "after X date, in the absence of an SPF
record, we will assume a/24 mx/24 ptr -all"