spf?

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, dep wrote:
> greetings, crowd . . .
>
> time for me to undertake another breathtaking display of ignorance.
>
> i'm on a cable modem and have used sendmail for the most part for years.
> problem is, more and more isps are blacklisting whole blocks of cable
> modem addresses.
>
> what i'm trying to figure out is whether spf would be of any use here,
> on my machine, or whether it is something that, really, has nothing to
> do with me. i've endeavored to read what i can on the subject, but most
> of it is, like so much documentation, written in a way that suggests
> arriving at the game at about halftime.
>
> anybody know about spf and what good it might be in a situation like
> mine? or is it something that would need to be done at the isp level?

Do you have authoritative control over your DNS record(s)?  If not, then
SPF isn't for you.

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