[91331] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: open letter to earthlink & comcast please publish SPF data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Jul 17 23:31:20 2006
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:00:48 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Mark Jeftovic" <markjr@easydns.com>,
"Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <44BBEC93.40802@easydns.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Earthlink was the second major ISP to [publicly] do the right thing
and dump their spf records.
We, I am happy to say, were the first ISP to do that.
For more, take a look at http://www.circleid.com/posts/spf_loses_mindshare/
You seriously think SPF is going to help you do that, Mark?
-srs
On 7/18/06, Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com> wrote:
>
> So how about publishing some SPF data on your earthlink.net domain so
> those so inclined can use it toward reducing the ungodly amounts of
> backscatter you guys must get (and which causes you to tarpit other
> carriers and forwarders)
>
> Same goes for comcast.
>
> Even a softfail ~all will help out buckets.
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
