Re: [spfbis] Proposed spf TXT record change

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 10 February 2016 03:31 UTC

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In article <56BAAD71.8080009@ragged-software.com> you write:
>I hope I don't come across as argumentative, that is not my intention. I
>don't have any idea how these workgroups work. I'm curious about a
>behavior that I THINK (I could be wrong) is incorrect with spf, and
>trying to learn, so I'm asking what I think are good questions.

Old joke:

Q. How could God create the world in six days?
A. He didn't have an installed base.

SPF works well enough that there is no incentive for anyone to change
the existing running code that is in tens of thousands of mail systems
all over the world.  If we were doing SPF from scratch, there's all
sorts of stuff we'd do differently, but like I said, it's a decade too
late.

R's,
John