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Re: [spf-discuss] advice wrong, or is it?

2007-12-21 03:06:31
On 21/12/2007, Alex van den Bogaerdt 
<alex(_at_)ergens(_dot_)op(_dot_)het(_dot_)net> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:23:23PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:

Note:  they say "~all" is good, "-all" is not.


I found this here:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33786

It depends on what your goal is.  If you want to deter spammers from using
your domains, then -all is a good idea.

OK, now please explain why someone would want to use ~all as google
suggests?  Yeah, sure, while testing it is OK, but thereafter ?

Probably because adopters of Google's SAAS email service typically do
so gradually rather than 'big-bang', and during transition (or perhaps
even permanently) still send email from their 'legacy' systems as well
as from Gmail. They'll have a history of support tickets around this,
which will have led to the ~all advice.

Peter


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Peter Bowyer
Email: peter(_at_)bowyer(_dot_)org

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