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isn't "...isn't perfect, but it's something now"
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2 () dcrocker net>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:17:47 -0700
Folks, EBD> ... SPF isn't EBD> perfect, but it's something now, and IMHO probably better than This is a very popular view these days. However there are some fundamental problems with it: 1. It mistakes activity for progress. 2. It ignores opportunity cost, diverting energies to efforts that are likely to have no effect on spam rather than allocating those resources to basic improvement in the service. 3. It ignores the difficulties with administration and operation of the mechanism, as it scales, such as its Procrustean limitation of usage scenarios that are reasonably supported. 4. It treats a short-term mechanism as if it had long-term benefit; yet modification of a global infrastructure is always and only subject to long-term processes. If SPF is wonderful, it had better satisfy a higher criterion than that it "isn't perfect, but it's something now". d/ -- Dave Crocker <mailto:dcrocker () brandenburg com> Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://www.brandenburg.com> Sunnyvale, CA USA <tel:+1.408.246.8253>, <fax:+1.866.358.5301>
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- RE: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?), (continued)
- RE: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?) Douglas Otis (Aug 04)
- Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?) David A . Ulevitch (Aug 04)
- Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?) Edward B. Dreger (Aug 04)
- Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?) Crist Clark (Aug 04)
- Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?) Pekka Savola (Aug 04)
- Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?) Dave Crocker (Aug 09)
- Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?) Edward B. Dreger (Aug 09)
- Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?) Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 09)
- Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?) Paul Vixie (Aug 09)
- Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?) Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 10)
- isn't "...isn't perfect, but it's something now" Dave Crocker (Aug 12)
- Re: isn't "...isn't perfect, but it's something now" Scott Francis (Aug 12)
- Re: isn't "...isn't perfect, but it's something now" Douglas Otis (Aug 12)
- Re: isn't "...isn't perfect, but it's something now" Ted Hardie (Aug 12)
- Re: isn't "...isn't perfect, but it's something now" Douglas Otis (Aug 12)
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- Re: isn't "...isn't perfect, but it's something now" Dave Crocker (Aug 13)
- Re: isn't "...isn't perfect, but it's something now" Edward B. Dreger (Aug 12)
- Re: XO Mail engineers? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 04)
- Re: XO Mail engineers? Douglas Otis (Aug 05)