--On 12 June 2010 17:22:34 +0200 "John R. Levine" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Of course not. That's an example of the reason that I don't find ADSP >>> useful (as opposed to manually vetted discard lists.) There's no way to >>> tell whether the party publishing discardable understands what they're >>> saying. >>> >> >> And likewise there is no way to tell whether the party implementing >> discard lists understand what they're doing. IMHO, we should stay away >> from assuming the presence or absence of a given level of expertise of >> the mail admins on this earth. > > There's a fairly key difference you're missing here. For ADSP, each > domain publishes what it thinks is its own policy, so if you look at a > million domains, you have to guess about the competence of a million mail > system managers. > > On the other hand, if you use one or two published drop lists, you can > afford to look at them and choose ones whose administrators are > competent, without having to individually vet each entry. Of course, I could also keep list of competent publishers of MX records. > R's, > John > _______________________________________________ > NOTE WELL: This list operates according to > http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
