[73897] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Jakma)
Tue Sep 7 13:09:48 2004
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 18:07:34 +0100 (IST)
From: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Cc: "Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom@unitedlayer.com>,
"Edward B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040907113007.GA27034@nic.fr>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> Also, SPF doesnt tell you whether it is spam.
>
> Of course. It never pretended to do so.
Right, but a lot of seem people to be under the mistaken impression
it will have some effect on spam.
> No. Where did you find the figures?
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2154
regards,
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own
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