[73902] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Tue Sep 7 15:28:58 2004
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:28:12 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0409071805180.23011@fogarty.jakma.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 09/07/04, Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie> wrote:
> 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.
And every time those people speak up, someone who knows better
corrects them. Thus is wisdom gained.
--
J.D. Falk "...one of the worst signs of our danger
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org> is we can't imagine the route
from here to utopia."
-- Kim Stanley Robinson
