[Mailman-Developers] before next release: disable backscatter in default installation

[Jo Rhett]

On Mar 26, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Julian Mehnle wrote:
> There are two parts to SPF: publishing SPF records for one's  
> domains, and
> checking SPF on incoming messages.  Everyone can do the SPF checking
> part, even if they cannot publish SPF records themselves for whatever
> reason.  SPF's alias-style forwarding issues aside, "Pass" results,  
> when
> achieved, are perfectly reliable and accurately indicate that the
> envelope sender address can safely be bounced to.

I was part of the original SPF working group, you're singing to the  
choir.

But for various reasons many organizations publish wide-open SPF  
records, and right or wrong those people will still report  
backscatter to the blacklists.

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness