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Re: SPF and moderated newsgroups

2004-10-20 11:04:44
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, James Couzens wrote:

state the SPF failed (because the NNTP server sends the poster's email
address incl. domain in the from envelope, and the SPF record doesn't
desognate the NNTP server/relays to send mail on behalf of that
domain).

Rather ironic considering this problem is the very flaw in SPF that has
had many a potential implementor's panties in a bunch.  As you suggest
the solution is a rather simple one.

Those NNTP servers are broken.  Imagine that SPF had never been invented.
Do you want the bounces from every failed delivery attempt of your
usenet post worldwide???  Fortunately, you only get the bounces from
failed deliveries by the broken servers - which thankfully are few.

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