> Sure it is, SPF is NOT an RFC and if the email follows RFC then it > is legit.
I'm afraid you have a rather exaggerated opinion of the relevance of RFCs, and of the concept of domain ownership. RFCs are meaningless when it comes to the acceptable use of your domain (which is protected by law, not at all by RFC). . . not to mention that the SMTP RFCs are widely disregarded in spamfighting: I'm sure you have several policies which do not respect all RFC MUSTs and SHOULDs. The courts have affirmed that a domain owner solely controls the use of the domain, even if it is not a distinctly registered trade or service mark (US Code Title 15, Chapter 22, Subchapter III, § 1127). Anyone else is simply using the mark at the will of the owner and is not protected any way by RFC. US Code v. RFC = no contest! > If your users are employees, then you are correct. If your users > are customers, then you are wrong. Paying customers have a right to > expect services to conform to accepted RFCs. Use of a domain is dictated by the domain owner, not by people who are customers, employees, or in any other way using the domain with the consent of the owner. True, _if_ an ISP's EULA should warrant that no measures will be taken to block the use of the domain name by the non-owners, then of course it would be an illegal trade practice to then make actionable moves toward such restrictions (such as publishing an SPF policy) without revising and publicizing a new EULA. But no one would be so stupid as to make such a declaration with any enforceable wording -- I've never seen anything close. You're imagining a level of end-user protection which simply is not generally recognized, though it may exist if literalized in a specific contract. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
