From: "Mark C. Langston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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, please look at the headers of my message and a reverse DNS
lookup on it. I'm not sure how SPF is going to affect the situation,
particularly when I am mobile. I do always use the Earthlink mail
servers when sending. However, it appears at the moment that I am on
genuity.net in reverse lookup: lsanca1-ar7-4-43-216-217.lsanca1.
elnk.dsl.genuity.net. To further complicate things I am working
through my partner's DSL account. (We use my dialup account for when
we are on the road. That way we can get back in to the home net
when we need to and for spam filtered email.)
Earthlink rents connectivity from all manner of POP providers. I
often look like I am on UUNET, for example. The reverse lookups
don't get patched because the patches would not percolate through
in a timely manner. Given that how does Earthlink post meaningful
SPF records for my case?
(I am NOT going to change ISPs just to get around the SPF nonsense. I
have had this account for over a decade now and am not going to get
rid of it. If SPF cannot handle my situation then I can be as cavalier
as those who might tell me to switch, "Fix the damn protocol."))
{^_^}
