This is the recent traffic on the #SPF-council IRC channel on irc.pobox.com. Anyone may join the channel, but only council members can talk.
If you do not have access to IRC, you may view the recent traffic at: http://www.schlitt.net/spf/spf-council/now/irc_log.html.
This log can be can be viewed at: http://www.schlitt.net/spf/spf-council/2005/03/04_irc_log.html.
IRC nicknames:
| csm | Chuck Mead |
| freeside | Meng Weng Wong |
| grumpy | Wayne Schlitt |
| Julian | Julian Mehnle |
| MarkK | Mark Kramer (asarian-host.net) |
| --- Thu Mar 3 14:47:19 UTC 2005 --- |
| 14:47 | <Julian> | http://moongroup.com/mailman/private/spf-private/2005-March/000051.html |
| 14:47 | <Julian> | grumpy: Perhaps you could talk to him? |
| 16:27 | <Julian> | Well? |
| 17:25 | <grumpy> | Julian: hi. I just sent email off to him. |
| 18:04 | <Julian> | grumpy: Thank you. :) |
| 18:08 | <Julian> | grumpy: I think he contacted me as the SPF Council Secretary, so I think he just wanted to interview "the council". |
| 18:30 | <freeside> | moo. |
| 21:40 | <Julian> | grumpy: Thanks for talking to Mr Murphy. |
| 21:42 | <Julian> | The increasing amount of press inquiries really is a good sign. Also, that we have the council is very helpful for journalists who otherwise might not know where to turn to with their questions! |
| 21:45 | <grumpy> | agreed |
| 21:46 | <grumpy> | I didn't even reach 750k domains on SPF though... that other list that I had wasn't as large as I had remembered... :-< |
| 21:47 | <Julian> | Well, you didn't check any .de domains, right? |
| 21:47 | <grumpy> | nope... |
| 21:48 | <grumpy> | oh, the last list does have some of every domains... So, yeah, I did check some .de domains. |
| 21:48 | <grumpy> | just not all of them. |
| 21:49 | <Julian> | According to inifinitepenguins, .de is the second largest repertoire of SPF-equipped domains. |
| 21:51 | <Julian> | Uhm, no. |
| 21:52 | <Julian> | WTF? Only 2642 .de domains with SPF records? That cannot be correct. |
| 21:58 | <Julian> | Perhaps we should set up a service that records the sender domain names in messages received by select high-traffic mail servers (pobox.com, etc.), and checks these collected domains for the existence of an SPF record. That way we wouldn't need a registry-compiled list of registered domains nor a list with owner-submitted domains (such as the infinitepenguins list). |
| 21:59 | <Julian> | That's sort of what Meng already did before. |
| 22:00 | <Julian> | Just in a more continuous and persistent manner. |
| 22:02 | <Julian> | "As a result of the growing adoption of SIDF worldwide, Microsoft has found notable improvements in the accuracy of its SmartScreen (TM) filtering process." -- Yeah, sure. |
| 22:02 | <Julian> | LOL |
| 22:03 | <Julian> | If _this_ isn't co-opting SPF, then I don't know what is. |
| 22:05 | <Julian> | Hell, why doesn't Yahoo do the same? They could show off 750,000 DomainKeys-equipped domains in a second -- all they have to do is define SPF to be a part of DomainKeys. ;-) |
| 22:32 | <csm-laptop> | so... Julian... what do you think of my press release now? |
| 22:32 | <Julian> | csm-laptop: Oops. Thanks for reminding me. |
| 22:32 | <csm-laptop> | I am not reminding you... |
| 22:33 | <Julian> | You did, even though you might not have intended it. ;-) |
| 22:33 | <csm-laptop> | I am asking you... in light of what we see today from Microsoft... would you like to express it stronger? |
| 22:34 | <Julian> | As I said before, I absolutely agree with what the draft PR is saying. But are you sure we can issue such an PR without an at-large community vote on a Sender-ID/Microsoft position statement? |
| 22:46 | * | Julian will be back in around ~00:00 UTC. |
| 22:46 | <Julian> | s/in// |
| 23:43 | <csm-laptop> | well... and at large community vote was already taken... they elected us... |