[88466] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: On the inoc-dba subject
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Feb 6 16:55:07 2006
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:47:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
Cc: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubensk@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <43E74308.30204@ttec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Advising people who do not validate with spf to
> whitelist by domain name is an over-simplification.
In fact, we don't advise them to do either one. The cautionary message is
to remind the significant (~10%) portion of people who try to sign up
using blocked email addresses why it might be that they're failing and not
seeing any error messages from us.
Believe me, we'd much prefer people found better ways of dealing with
spam.
-Bill