Re: [Asrg] SPF is only useful to dupe the ignorant...

[Seth Breidbart <sethb at panix.com>]

Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> top-posted:

> It's their dsl customer, why wouldn't they?

Because they do NOT want to encourage email coming from it, that's
why.

There is absolutely _no_ reason to publish an SPF record for any IP
address you don't want to authorize to emit email that claims to be
 from your domain.

> But that's nothing to do with the SPF spec, per se, and my guess is
> that without some external force (unlikely) you'll have billions who
> do, and billions who don't.

Somebody who publishes SPF records for spammers will quickly find all
of their SPF records untrusted, which is not a good position to be in.

Seth

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