Re: [CORE] SPF Record ...

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [CORE] SPF Record ...
Date: 2006-11-19 09:24:06
Message-ID: 456022B6.3040501@postgresql.org
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Dan Langille wrote:
>> These are inaccurate conclusions. SPF information helps to draw a
>> conclusion. Consider it a points system. Get so many points for a
>> might be, none for a definitely. Get enough points, you're spam.
>> SPF is most wisely used in conjunction with other information to
>> reach a conclusion.
>
> The whole thing is evil technology, as I have previously pointed out,
> which is a reason to boycott it. I regularly get my email blocked by
> other community members because of it.
>
> But the application you are describing here is equally stupid. You are
> saying that even though it is -- per SPF record -- OK to send
> @postgresql.org via other hosts, you get penalized in your scoring
> system for doing so. So in spite of *no* indication that some email is
> spam, you are (partially) rejecting it. What sense does that make?

Which is a far clearer way of say what I just wrote in my current
pre-coffee state!!

+1

/D

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