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Re: The problems with SPF

2005-08-26 08:03:05
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Dan Field wrote:
Yes, forwarding is the problem and it is SPF that has highlighted the
problem... but it is a problem that is very deep routed now, after
years of people using the system the way they want to.  Even though it
may be technically wrong I can't see a large majority of people
changing.

But without this problem being solved I think adoption of SPF will not
happen on a global scale.

I predict that forwarding without sender rewriting will die and SPF (or
an equivalent technology) will succeed, because, overall, authenticity of 
sender addresses simply is much more important to users than forwarding 
without sender rewriting, which can (from users' perspective) be easily 
substituted by forwarding _with_ sender rewriting.
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