On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 15:19 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > SPF will never be 99% adopted until it actually does something that is > significantly useful. Using it as a white list to bypass a grey list > isn't what I would call significantly useful. SPF fails the "actually > works" test. > But it DOES do something useful.
It reduces backscatter from spam that uses your domain as the forged sender. And it does so without costing you more cycles than a DNS lookup uses. That's it. I've said my say. I'm out of this unnecessary pissing match after saying to the OP who gratuitously started it: "May the fleas from a thousand camels infest your armpits". Martin