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On Aug 4, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Edward B. Dreger wrote: DAU> I think people will realize that if we're remodeling the DAU> boat that much we should have at least made sure we were DAU> fixing something in the process... Indeed. [snip] SPF's use of TXT records doesn't bother me so much. It's more that people are (blindly) clamoring for it. SpamAssassin is going to start checking SPF records.Running something DNS-based that requires simple parsing is hardly an earth-shattering change; it smells similar to DNSBLs, yes? Yet it's still somewhat controversial. If I don't choose to implement SPF my DNS servers are still going to get those TXT record requests. I can't opt-out of that. I don't look forward to getting a taste of what the root-server operators see in their valid/invalid lookup ratios. I think there are going to be some negative consequences as more people implement SPF that will only become apparent at a certain scale. -david ---------------------------------------------------- David A. Ulevitch - Founder, EveryDNS.Net http://david.ulevitch.com -- http://everydns.net ----------------------------------------------------
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