Re: SPF deployment by Oct. 1 ?

["J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () cybernothing org>]

On 07/26/04, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote: 

> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:51:26 EDT, Gerald said:
>
> > I think this will be the next best thing in E-mail. I'd love for that date
> > to be August 1 though.
>
> OK... Aug 1 is a weekish away.   Check your inbound mail for today, and ask
> yourself how much you'd be losing if you started enforcing SPF today, and what
> percentage of the sites you get legitimate mail from are likely to deploy SPF
> tags this week.....

        I'd be extremely surprised if anyone were planning to block all
        mail from non-SPF-using sites any time soon.  However, it'll
        still be useful as an additional data point in a filtering
        decision process.

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J.D. Falk                            "...one of the worst signs of our danger
<jdfalk () cybernothing org>                       is we can't imagine the route
                                                          from here to utopia."
                                                    -- Kim Stanley Robinson