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Re: [spf-discuss] Design bugs in v=spf1 (was: Issue tracker for 4408bis)

2006-09-19 13:51:08
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Julian Mehnle wrote:

* rename include: to something like if-pass.  It is *really* badly
  named right now and causes a lot of confusion.

Why not just name it "if:" (less confusing) and provide "include:" as a 
deprecated (confusing but backwards compatible) alternative?

Because "if-fail:" would also be quite useful.

For more evidence that "include:" is misnamed, I found this in my logs:

config.com text "v=spf1 include:216.28.158.0/24 include:67.15.56.0/24 
include:67.15.57.0/24 include:www.2.sitegalore.com include:66.219.135.0/24" " 
-all"

They are probably thinking spfv3 needs "exclude:" :-)

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