Re: SPF (was: Re: PERSONAL xxxx - KTA)
At 07:54 AM 7/1/2007 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
>you misunderstand what SPF is for. SPF is *NOT* an anti-spam system. it
>is an anti-forgery system. SPF's *SOLE* purpose is for a domain owner to
>decide which hosts are allowed to send mail claiming to be from their
>domain. nothing more, nothing less.
Tell that to all the people who incorporate SPF into their spam scoring
systems. :\
>it'll never happen. and if anyone attempted it, it would be completely
>undermined by the need to be backwards compatible with SMTP for at least
>the first few years....thus giving no actual advantage, and no incentive
>for anyone to go to the effort of switching to it.
>
>and forcing everyone to shift to it.... you are joking, right?
Well they did force us to get new TV sets. :D And France has managed to ram
the metric system down the whole world's throats. :(
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