Re: [Asrg] DNS-based Email Sender Authentication Mechanisms: aCritical Review

["Chris Lewis" <[e-mail]>]

Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote:
> Chris Lewis wrote:
>> I experimented with it.  It works.  But doesn't add enough to be worth 
>> while if you already have decent MTA-end filtering.
>>
>> If you don't have decent MTA filtering, it might be worthwhile.

> OK, but... Well, you said "if you don't have decent MTA filtering".

I did.

> Looks like "hack", "workaround", ...

Yup.  No way I'd deploy it to our users.

> IMHO, one of the problems in spam filtering is that we're allways including and accepting 
> the existence of bad solutions, bad administered mail servers, bad practices, ...

I wouldn't "include or accept" it, or at most perhaps note that it's 
somewhat usable in idiosyncratic situations.  FSVO "somewhat" and "usable".

> It seems to me that ASRG should, first of all, encourage best practices.

Well yeah, but, you even have a hard time pushing MTA-end filtering as BCP.

Politics.  Sigh.