I work for a college. To our institution, a legitimate email is one
that was requested by the user. Whether that site is "appropriate" is
not for us nor anyone else to decide. We are acting as an ISP for our
students and therefore must allow them to receive or send any email they
wish. We also cannot allow legitimate emails to be blocked. Our
professors and students would not allow this to happen. We would be
hanged!
rogerk(_at_)queernet(_dot_)org 5/2/2005 4:12:18 PM >>>
On Mon, 2 May 2005, Andrew Gutkowski wrote:
I don't really care if it's appropriate or not. I care if we will
be
receiving legitimate email from mail web servers which utilize this
practice. I consider ebay.com to be a legitimate web site. They
are
not the only legitimate site out there which uses this either.
Legitimate, appropriate. Tomayto, tomahto.
What makes a site "legitimate"? Do you mean EBay is "legitimate"
because
they're not a scam?
Is a "legitimate" site therefore allowed to do anything it wants? To
me,
even in the absence of SPF, if a site originates mail with an
envelope-sender domain it doesn't serve, it's acting inappropriately,
which makes it illegitimate.
Yes, many sites do this. Well-designed sites do not.
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