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Re: [dmarc-ietf] no hints for receivers

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com> Sat, 20 April 2013 20:12 UTC

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Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:12:10 -0700
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com>
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On 4/20/2013 1:09 PM, John Levine wrote:
> My advice for senders who want to publish extra hints for receivers is
> this: don't bother.
>
> For a sender we don't know, we're going to ignore the hint since there
> is no reason to believe it.  For a sender we do know, we're probably
> going to accept your mail anyway and the hint won't help.



We need to produce an online placard that quotes the above and is cited 
for all discussions about improving email abuse-related handling...

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