Re: SRS whitelist

Julian Mehnle <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:20:00 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.srs.general,gmane.mail.spam.spf.discuss
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Please continue this discussion on spf-discuss.  It is off-topic on
srs-discuss.

David Woodhouse wrote:
> To be honest, I wouldn't bother. Although many people _publish_ SPF
> records, and all the graphs of adoption will show this figure,
> relatively few people are actually rejecting mail due to SPF failure.

"Relatively few people" -- so exactly how did you figure this out?  Any 
meaningful statistics?

BTW, there are people who use SPF to ensure that they send bounces only to 
SPF-verified (i.e. SPF "Pass") sender addresses.

> If any sites _are_ rejecting the mail which you forward, simply advise
> them to stop using SPF. Refer them to something like
> http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html or something similar.

You forgot the <plug type="shameless"> tags.

> Whenever I've found a site rejecting the mail which I forward, they've
> disabled their SPF checking as soon as I've actually explained how it
> 'works'. 

I don't forward mail without rewriting the sender, ergo I don't have your 
problem.  Lucky me.
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