Re: [CORE] SPF Record ...

Dave Page wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> Until someone devises the 'perfect solution to spam', I would think
>> that a series of 'less then perfect ones' would at least help combat
>> it ...
>
> And that's a perfectly fine idea, except when one of those partial
> solutions can have undesirable side effects. In the case of SPF we've
> heard of at least two so far:
>
> 1) When used without ?all, those scoring messages using SPF may end
> up blocking legitimate messages from non-listed servers.
>
> 2) SPF may be used as a mechanism for DNS attacks.
>
> Regards, Dave.

Just to add some more to the debate:
http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html
http://www.circleid.com/posts/spf_loses_mindshare/

And others.

I respect Suresh a LOT from the anti-spam community,
and I've REMOVED my SPF records. I don't think we (PostgreSQL.org)
should put an SPF record in place.

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