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[Kevin Hunter]

At 6:29pm -0400 Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Matt Pusateri wrote:
> Since so many people don't configure SPF properly anyways, it's kinda
> of pointless.

Could you define "properly"?  As in, don't set it up at all, don't get 
the syntax right, have gibberish setups, or something else?  (And I 
assume we're talking v1.0, yes?)

As I understand it (which is probably totally wrong), SPF makes sense in 
concept, but relies on a corporate centric view of the world.  That is, 
it assumes all entities of a group will send email through specific 
gateways.  But then you have groups like freedesktop.org (just as an 
example, not to hype or gripe), that have developers all over the world 
-- often with their own mail setups -- who send email with a from 
address @freedesktop.org.  They have no interest in requiring their 
developers to send through certain gateways, and so see no point in 
setting the effectively useless directive "v=spf1 +all".

Kevin