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Re: SPF deployment by Oct. 1 ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Mon Jul 26 14:39:27 2004

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:41:03 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Gerald <gcoon@inch.com>
Cc: John Bittenbender <kisanth88@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20040726114536.Q84008@kod.inch.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Gerald wrote:

>
>Does it strike anyone else as odd that they would be encouraging the use,
>but not have SPF setup yet for the primary domains they are known for yet?
>AOL is leading the way by publishing their SPF records. I can understand
>not implementing the blocks or delays yet, but publish the records ASAP.
>
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>
It does, I´ve also been advocating for them to implement reverse maps 
for servers responsible for distributing updates so they could more 
easily be identified but to no avail.

Pete

>I think this will be the next best thing in E-mail. I'd love for that date
>to be August 1 though.
>
>FYI SpamAssassin 3.0 has / will have SPF checks built in.
>
>Gerald
>  
>


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