Re: [spfbis] Proposed spf TXT record change

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 10 February 2016 15:06 UTC

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In article <56BAB8C1.50809@ragged-software.com> you write:
>While I'm aware that there are "tens of thousands of mail systems all
>over the world", there are only a few SMTP implementations that are run
>on all those systems. You only have to get the SMTP developers on board.

Well, OK.  Why don't you start contacting them, encourange them to
change their SPF implementations with a suitable transition period,
and let us know when we can throw the switch.

One immutable rule of the standards and open source world is that
telling other people to do work that you're not willing to do yourself
is, ah, ineffective at best.

R's,
John