On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:37:10PM -0800, Dan Wilder wrote:
> > 
> > ...which is not the recommendation of SPF.  The default assumption is,
> > "no SPF record == bad, evil spammer."
> 
> Yuck!  You sure about that!?!
> 


>From http://spf.pobox.com/objections.html :

Domains that refuse to publish SPF or publish global-allow SPF out of
political principle, malice, or incompetence will simply have to accept
the penalty of a higher spam score. My fifty megs of spam a month
outweighs your one curmudgeonly tirade.

Domains who do this are the same domains who run open relays. They have
deliberately chosen to go against the flow, and I can deliberately
choose not to accept mail from them. I respect toad.com for taking a
principled stand, and I hope they will publish an SPF "allow" record for
the same reason they're an open relay.

(full disclosure:  I know a few people involved with toad.com.  However,
I don't agree with their running of an open relay).

-- 
Mark C. Langston                                    Sr. Unix SysAdmin
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