This one time, at band camp, Joe Emenaker said: > Andy Smith wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:55:25PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > >>Juha-Matti Tapio wrote: > >> > >>>For example I would be really surprised to ever see actually > >>>effective SPF-records on debian.org. > >>> > >>Why? > >> > >Because there are large numbers of people with debian.org addresses > >who would have to use debian.org infrastructure to send mail with > >them, if they wanted them to pass strict SPF checks. > > > I don't see this presenting a huge burden on the actual users, since > mailers like Thunderbird let you specify different outgoing SMTP servers > depending upon the "From:" identity you're using. > > I don't see it presenting a huge burden on the servers, since mail from > individual Debian maintainers/admins surely pales in comparison to the > traffic on the mailing lists (that the servers are already handling) > > I don't see it presenting a huge burden on the server administrators, > since they can automate the process of adding/removing SMTP accounts as > much as they've automated other tasks when someone becomes a maintainer > (or otherwise gets a debian.org identity). Debian does not currently relay mail for developers. This is not a difficult change, but it still represents a fair amount of work to set up and automate. Until then, SPF records for Debian are not wise or likely. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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