On 26 May 2004 at 13:18, David Woodhouse wrote about
"Re: [Exim] exiscan-acl-4.24-22 - SP":
| On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 04:56 -0700, Fred Viles wrote:
| > | Because they have no right to make that request.
| >
| > The administrator (and by proxy, owner) of a domain has no right to
| > determine how it is used? That strikes me as an extreme view.
|
| OK, let me put it another way. By sending mail by SMTP, it is reasonable
| to assume that the sender grants permission for SMTP servers to do what
| SMTP servers have done for decades -- to forward the mail elsewhere with
| the reverse-path intact.
As an argument, that makes no sense. By definition, publishing SPF
records explicitly denies permission to redirect messages. You say a
domain owner has no right to withhold permission because "it is
reasonable to assume" he is actually granting permission?
How foolish it may be to publish such a restriction is a different
issue, on which we agree.
- Fred
