Re: SPF deployment, was RFC 3929 on Alternative Decision ...
wayne <[email protected]>
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In <[email protected]> John Levine <[email protected]> writes: >>SPF-classic is currently widely deployed. > > People have published a lot of SPF-classic records in DNS, but I wouldn't > confuse that with deployment. I am not confusing the two. Yeah, it is much easier to check how many people are publishing SPF records than checking them, but that doesn't mean that you can't get clues to the latter. > The amount of mail going through SPF tests is still small, and only a few > aggressively wacky sites block mail that fails SPF. Ok, let me ask you: How do you know that "the amount of mail going through SPF test is still small"? What do you define as "small"? How "small" is spf testing compared to other things, such as various DNSBL checks, or SpamAssassin usage, or whatever? -wayne