[73836] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Corlett)
Mon Sep 6 08:05:41 2004
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: abuse@cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett)
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:04:45 +0000 (UTC)
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Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> This is not a good beginning
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1642848,00.asp
It's a predictable response by the spammers. Did anybody really expect
the spammers to go "oh, well, that's it, we'd better shut up shop
now"?
I'm an advocate of SPF, but not because it's the magic bullet that
stops spam. It does however allow innocent domains to say "no, I
didn't send that" and thus avoid the double-bounced backwash from a
spammer forging their domain as the sender.
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