| | VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter) [LWN.net] |
 | | It gives us a way to tell the world, that emails claiming to be coming from VGER should be accepted only when they really are coming from vger. |
 | | (Complications like recipients incoming MX relays are not _our_ problem..) We might get slight reduction of back falling junk at vger with that - reduction increases when people begin to deploy the SPF verification more and more widely into their receiving email servers. |
 | | You really should go and read SPF documents and guides and FAQs at: http://spf.pobox.com/ Very little will break, but one should really consider converting their email sending methodology to one, which uses fewest possible number of servers, publish that data in DNS, and always send all emails thru those servers. |
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