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From: owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Julian Mehnle
Sent: dinsdag 17 mei 2005 14:15
To: spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
Subject: [spf-discuss] People keep misunderstanding what
"Pass" and "Neutral" mean (was: Time to start rejecting on neutral?)
| 2.5.2. Neutral
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| The domain owner has explicitly stated that they don't know whether
| the IP address is authorized or not. [...]
Also from a theoretical point of view, "Neutral" ("?") is mostly pointless
because it doesn't make sense to say "I don't know whether that IP
address is authorized" -- the publisher by definition
should know which hosts he wants to authorize. It is _his_ decision.
I would therefore say "neutral" means: "I do not *care* whether the IP
address is authorized." To say: "they don't know", in the formal spec,
is like "cognizance" in law, where "neutral" in SPF is not the absence of
knowing per se , but functions like the absence of "acknowledgment,
recognition" (of knowledge that may well, and probably does, exist).
- Mark
System Administrator Asarian-host.org
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