[72781] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SPF deployment by Oct. 1 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Mon Jul 26 17:09:57 2004
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:05:33 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200407261952.i6QJqguW029074@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 07/26/04, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:51:26 EDT, Gerald said:
>
> > I think this will be the next best thing in E-mail. I'd love for that date
> > to be August 1 though.
>
> OK... Aug 1 is a weekish away. Check your inbound mail for today, and ask
> yourself how much you'd be losing if you started enforcing SPF today, and what
> percentage of the sites you get legitimate mail from are likely to deploy SPF
> tags this week.....
I'd be extremely surprised if anyone were planning to block all
mail from non-SPF-using sites any time soon. However, it'll
still be useful as an additional data point in a filtering
decision process.
--
J.D. Falk "...one of the worst signs of our danger
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org> is we can't imagine the route
from here to utopia."
-- Kim Stanley Robinson
