IP address reputation, BorderWare

[am.lists]

On 3/23/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> am.lists spake the following on 3/23/2007 3:55 AM:
> > On 3/22/07, Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller at ci.juneau.ak.us> wrote:
> >> Scott Silva wrote:
> >> > Yes ... like SPF but without all the people who have ~all in their
> >> > records!
> >>
> >> I've never understood that.  Mine are all hard fails.  Soft fails are
> >> for people that are soft in the head, me thinks.
> >>
> >
> > The problem with hard fails is the following scenario:
> >
> > You are on a website that has a "send to a friend" -- and it imitates
> > your from address  so that your "friend" recognizes the mail from you.
> >
> > I'm not sure I like it this way, but in some circumstances, on poorly
> > designed sites, a -all would kill this message.
> >
> > Angelo
> That is why if I want to send something to a friend, I cut and paste the link.
> Why give some third party an address that they might sell to a spammer?
> Or use to spam themselves.
>

Yes. You do that, and I do that. But I had a user the other day
complain that her attachment was taking a long time to send, and then
it came back underliverable.

I asked her how large it was?  She replied "Oh, it's 41MB MS Publisher file".

It's not us. It's the users we [have to] support.

--Angelo