[73915] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Jakma)
Wed Sep 8 07:17:10 2004
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:14:54 +0100 (IST)
From: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
To: vijay gill <vgill@vijaygill.com>
Cc: David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040908110252.GA32246@vijaygill.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, vijay gill wrote:
> But if instead of foobar.com, it is vix.com or citibank.com, then
> their SPF records will not point at randomgibberish.comcast.net as
> an authorized sender. That means that if I do get a mail purporting
> to be from citi from randomgibberish, I can junk it without
> hesitation.
Yes, all we need for SPF to work is for spammers to play along and
cooperate, and we'll be able to filter out the spam they send.
Earth calling... ;)
> /vijay
regards,
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