IP address reputation, BorderWare

[Scott Silva]

am.lists spake the following on 3/26/2007 6:15 AM:
> 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
I guess beating them will not improve morale after all! At least not THEIR morale!
Just thinking about it makes me smile...  ;-P


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