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Re: SPAM and Virus emails to NANOG

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Mar 19 17:10:55 2004

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:10:21 -0500
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
Cc: greg@xwb.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200403192203.i2JM36C22306@gw.retro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:03:06PM -0800, George William Herbert wrote:
> This is why I use nmh as my mail user agent.
> But it doesn't protect anyone else out there
> from viruses impersonating me in this manner.
> Or impersonating you, or anyone else...


	These spoofed virii/worm/whatnot emails can be
somewhat prevented in a few cases by the utilization of SPF

	http://spf.pobox.com/

	I encourage people to look at this, review it for its merits and
look at using it.  Then if the nanog list were to be use spf, it could
help prevent these booogus emails from reaching the list.

	- Jared

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