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Subject: Re: VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter)
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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
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Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net> writes:

> Look at it from a mail admin's perspective.  The bounces are now going 
> nowhere instead of some poor user's mailbox.  You have just cut the damage 
> in half.

If people doing SPF configured their servers to reject obviously
bad messages before the SMTP transaction is completed (rather than
generating a bounce later) it would IMHO do much more good.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa