On Thu, 18 May 2017 08:53:37 -0700, "Luis E. Muñoz" said:
 
> large ranges in the SPF validation. I suppose it would be plagued with 
> false positives, but if enough people did it, it would give some 
> priority to actually think about your SMTP flows when setting up your 
> SPF records.

That sort of thinking may have worked 3 decades ago, when Sendmail 5.67
was the latest and greatest way to move e-mail around, and pretty much all
the sysadmins on the network knew each other by reputation, and posting "Hey
guys, I can't seem to get this working, what am I missing?" was guaranteed to
get you useful help.

However, I haven't seen much evidence that it's been a workable strategy
anytime this century.  In particular, it would require a number of 800 pound
gorillas who are mostly centered around increasing the success percentage to
voluntarily choose a course of action that would lower the percentage - and
they'd be relying on the set of sysadmins who did the *least* thinking about
their configuration to fix their stuff.

Phrased differently - did anybody in school *ever* voluntarily choose to work
on a project with the least clued and engaged student in the class, in hopes of
improving their own grade on the project?

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