RE: SPF PASS (was: "If you believe that the SPF concept is fundam entally flawed, please subscribe at http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/")

> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carl Hutzler

> Never even knew there was helo checking in SPF.  I might have 
> to do some reading. My bad!

It was in at the very start, then it got taken out, then it got put back
in again.

I think that there had been some discussion about putting HELO checking
back in before your comment at the FTC but after that event it became a
no-brainer. First there was a major ISP that found that the check had
value, second there was absolutely no point in having a standards war
over how people make use of SPF records when there is precisely nothing
the sender can or should be able to do to dictate how the information is
interpreted.

I think that all this discussion and techno-politics have caused folk to
loose sight of the fact that all we are doing here is providing the
receiver with information that might help a recipient decide that he
really wants to accept a piece of email.