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Simon Andrews
Personal blog · simonandrews.ca/articlesprogrammingcareer
Simon Andrews's personal blog at simonandrews.ca covers programming and career. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Simon Andrews' blog for a guide to setting up SPF, DKIM and DMARC email authentication, which is relevant to running a mailing list.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Engineering Manager/Product Engineer based in London, UK
Most-linked posts?
- How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-15
What Hacker News says?
I work with SPF and DMARC, and still learned things from this recent post on HN. https://simonandrews.ca/articles/how-to-set-up-spf-dkim-dmar... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712634 It honestly isn't that bad, but it falls into that kind of thing you do once a year and then forget in between. Don't let that stuff discourage you, you'll have much bigger problems with humanity on a mailing list unless you…
Comment linking /articles/how-to-set-up-spf-dkim-dmarc
on “Ask HN: How to run an old-school mailing list?”Submitted How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards as a story · 392 points
HN discussionSubmitted I figured out how DMARC works, and it almost broke me as a story · 114 points
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