SPF record

Byung-Hee HWANG bh at izb.knu.ac.kr
Sun Nov 2 13:30:46 UTC 2008


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Res wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> 
>> Well, a negligible number of people may have a very important position
>> as like a businessman in international trade or a special researcher in
>> scientific area. So i did not set a SPF record in DNS aside from the
>> obvious things (e.g., mailing list manager's domain) ;;
> 
> We have lawyers and doctors, and none of them have ever had any issues,
> and I doubt an international business or scientific would be using
> shared host server :)

That's local issue. It's hard to explain in detail. Anyway i would like
to say that SPF is somewhat dangerous to use as anti-spam trick.
Recently i'm going with DKIM [RFC4871] as an alternative technique to
reduce spam and phishing. DKIM is more reasonable, smooth, exact than
the others ;;

byunghee

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