On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:06:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Isaac To <kkto@csis.hku.hk> writes: > > > Unluckily, the thread started by John is not a "thread gone mad", or at > > least I don't think it is. The underlying views can be summarized as > > one of > > > a. SPF is a bloodily stupid idea that adds to user inconvenience without > > much gain to the net as whole. So to prevent SPF from gaining grounds, > > Debian should actively not implement anything to make sure mails from > > SPF enabled sites to actually get delivered. Then users of SPF will > > one day understand how stupid SPF actually is. > > > b. SPF is a good idea, and Debian should support it even when very few > > others are using SPF. So it really should implement SRS to make sure > > sites with SPF enabled, and users with who filter mails based on SPF > > rules, will be served nicely. Debian should itself publish SPF records > > as well. > > > c. We don't know whether SPF is a good idea, and if enough people do use > > it, we should not bar them from access to the Debian list. So even if > > Debian might not implement SPF (i.e., not publish a SPF record in the > > Debian DNS server), it should implement at least SRS to make sure other > > users of SPF is served nicely. > > I think there's a fourth one: > > d. It's not clear whether SPF will actually help anything, and some > work is required to implement SRS and deal with forwarding back any > bounces, not to mention possibly breaking user assumptions about > envelope senders (for example SRS will turn unresolvable envelope > senders that could be rejected as spam into resolvable envelope > senders unless you take them apart again). So a wait and see > approach may be indicated before actually taking time to do the work. e. SPF is a good idea, but it is not appropriate for Debian to publish SPF records. We should largely ignore it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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