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mention another dropped option

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......@@ -649,6 +649,30 @@ replication for a "warm" spare.
Multi-primary setups would require "sharding" the users across
multiple servers and is definitely considered out of scope.
## Personal SPF/DKIM records and partial external hosting
At Debian.org, it's possible for members to configure their own DKIM
records which allows them to sign their personal, outgoing email with
their own DKIM keys and send signed emails out to the world from their
own email. We will not support such a configuration, as it is
considered too complex to setup for normal users.
Furthermore, it would not *easily* help people currently hosted by
Gmail or Riseup: while it's technically possible for users to
*individually* delegate their DKIM signatures to those entities, those
keys could change without notice and would immediately break.
DMARC has similar problems, particularly with monitoring and error
reporting.
Delegating SPF records might be slightly easier (because delegation is
built into the protocol), but has also been rejected for now. It is
considered risky to grant *all* of Gmail the rights to masquerade as
`torproject.org` (even though that's currently the status quo). And
besides delegating SPF alone wouldn't solve the more general problem
of *partially* allowing third parties to send mail as
`@torproject.org` (because of DKIM and DMARC).
## Status quo
The current status quo is also an option. But it is our belief that it
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