[100362] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Al Iverson)
Mon Oct 22 10:36:39 2007
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:32:05 -0500
From: "Al Iverson" <aiversonlists@spamresource.com>
To: "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a0710212249l63cceff0n6a1658ce7d0f3a81@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 10/22/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/22/07, William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com> wrote:
>
> > Do you publish SPF records so that remote sites can detect forgeries
> > claiming to be from your domain?
>
> In other words "Do you play russian roulette with your email"?
>
> John Levine's got something really good on this at
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/spf_loses_mindshare/
My take on it matches that of some of the commenters there...until
DKIM is used far and wide, and everybody catches up to using it, SPF
and Sender ID serve a useful purpose, and I would personally recommend
implementation for anyone sending email for any purpose.
Yes, it breaks forwarding.
Regards,
Al Iverson
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