[73847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. Dreger)
Mon Sep 6 14:39:48 2004
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 18:38:44 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040906112604.18403.qmail@web80513.mail.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
HL> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 04:26:04 -0700 (PDT)
HL> From: Henry Linneweh
HL> This is not a good beginning
HL>
HL> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1642848,00.asp
Yawn. "If the sender domain isn't forged, the mail isn't spam"
is incredibly stupid logic. I suppose the next big news article
will be that spammers also prefer forging domains that lack SPF
records. (Will miracles never cease?)
Eddy
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