On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:00:27PM -0800, Chris Markle wrote:
Say I wanted to simplify the user experience of dealing with the results
of SPF/SID queries (host_check)... Right now iirc the results of said
query can be Pass, Fail, Neutral, None, TempError, PermError and
SoftFail. Would it be reasonable to compress these results for
presentation to the average user (e.g., grandma-type or those that don't
read this list) into Pass, Fail, Unknown or something like that?
IMHO This depends on the application.
If Grandma only wants to know if the email is a probable forgery,
"Probably", "Probably not" and "Can't tell" will be enough.
I wouldn't completely destroy the information. You may want to
keep it somewhere in the background, waiting for the moment that
grandma asks "why", "are you sure" and "Why can't you tell".
The best thing to do is probably to have a computer to human
translation available. "The computer used to send this message
is not allowed to use the `%o' name." (see macro expansion).
Alex