Re: [CORE] SPF Record ... - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Dave Page
Subject Re: [CORE] SPF Record ...
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Msg-id 456022B6.3040501@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: [CORE] SPF Record ...  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
List pgsql-www
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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