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Re: On the inoc-dba subject

  • From: Jon Lewis
  • Date: Mon Feb 06 11:08:57 2006 
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Joe Maimon wrote:


pch.net publishes a SPF record:
"v=spf1 ip4:204.61.210.70/32 mx mx:woodynet.net a:sprockets.gibbard.org
a:ghosthacked.net ~all"

Besides going from soft-fail (~all) to fail (-all), they are already
giving you the tools you need to validate a MAIL FROM: claim.
Thats all very well and good, but advising people who do not validate with spf to whitelist by domain name is an over-simplification.
So call it additional clue-boundary to entry and be done with this silly thread.

Besides, the site doesn't specify how to filter/whitelist...just to make sure you can accept mail from pch.net. A simple person might take that to mean "I better allow any @pch.net from address" but that's not what the site says.

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