Softfail simply means the ISP does not have a SPF record published (most likely) or you could not find one for them or some other temp fail or guess type situation... or they have not tested their SPF implementation and have the softfail all in their record.... which somewhat defeats the whole purpose of even having a SPF record... /sigh.
Are you sure you aren't thinking of neutral (?all) rather than softfail (~all)?
Softfail indicates that you're 99% sure you've covered all the bases, but you want to leave an exception for cases you've missed. "Messages that are not sent from an approved server should still be accepted but may be subjected to greater scrutiny."
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