[73991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Fri Sep 10 03:54:54 2004
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:48:09 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3isaod7co.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:59:51PM +0000,
Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com> wrote
a message of 27 lines which said:
> you could bet that by closing off this avenue, SPF will force
> spammers to use other methods that are more easily
> detected/filtered, and that if you play this cat&mouse game long
> enough, it will drive the cost of spam so high (or drive the volume
> benefit so low) that it'll just die out.
Good summary. This is the right strategy.
> but to me, SPF is just a way to rearrange the deck chairs on the
> Titanic.
I can swim but I believe that the water under the Titanic was quite
too cold to stay. Any advice to the people on the NANOG mailing list
before the boat goes down?
