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[spf-discuss] the spf-discuss welcome message

2006-11-02 11:51:20

When people sign up for the spf-discuss list, the get a welcome
message.  This morning I updated it slightly to no longer mention
things like spf.pobox.com, the "SPF wiki" on infinitepenguins, and a
few other minor things.  

Below is the current text.  Please let me know what changes, if any,
that people think should be made.


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This list is for open discussion of the SPF email anti-forgery system.

Subscription to this list, and posting to it, is a privilege, not a right.
The list operates according to the best practices described at RFC1855.
You should also review http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/02mar/slides/plenary-3/

Revocation of privileges operates according to an abbreviated form of
BCP83.  In short: kooks, crazy people, and rude people should expect
to be unsubscribed.

The SPF mailing list is intended for constructive discussion and
promotion of SPF.  If you believe that the SPF concept is
fundamentally flawed, please read the discussion archives as your
point has almost certainly been discussed at length before.  Rehashing
old arguments, especially a combative way, may be considered rude by
most people.  New arguements, or new information about old arguments,
however, are quite welcome.

The SPF standard originated as a hybrid of Gordon Fecyk's DMP
proposal and Hadmut Danisch's RMX proposal.  It now provides
a superset of their functionality.  More information at
 http://www.openspf.org/

November 2004: The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group
sponsors a white paper titled Sender Authentication: What To Do.
http://www.openspf.org/whitepaper.pdf
Please read it!

October 2004: Microsoft encourages the publication of SPF
records.  Microsoft will use a modified form of SPF, known as
"Sender ID", to check message headers in MUAs.  Most other
MTA implementations continue to use SPF in its original form,
to check the return-path at SMTP time.

Official announcements regarding SPF will be made on this list and
also on the announcements-only list, 
spf-announce(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com, so
you don't need to subscribe to both lists.

List archives are available at http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss/current/

FOR DOMAIN OWNERS

SPF is now ready for widespread adoption.  If you control a
domain, you should publish SPF records for it now.  You can
get started at http://www.openspf.org/wizard.html.  It takes most
people about 10 minutes to learn about SPF and 5 minutes to
write the records.

FOR MAIL ADMINS

You can download plugins for Postfix, Exim, Qmail, Sendmail,
Exchange, and other MTAs from http://spf.pobox.com/downloads.html.

FOR DEVELOPERS

One of SPF's design goals is to be simple, quick, and easy for domain
owners to publish records.  We have met this goal at the cost of
some complexity on the client end.  Most developers accept this
tradeoff.

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-wayne

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