[91328] in North American Network Operators' Group
open letter to earthlink & comcast please publish SPF data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Jeftovic)
Mon Jul 17 16:02:05 2006
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:01:23 -0400
From: Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
earthlink.net addresses are among the forgery addresses of choice for
spammers, they are right up there with hotmail.com
I think a very high percentage of the pinksheet pump and dump spams and
the viagr*, enl*rgment, etc spams have fake earthlink.net addresses in
the From headers
So how about publishing some SPF data on your earthlink.net domain so
those so inclined can use it toward reducing the ungodly amounts of
backscatter you guys must get (and which causes you to tarpit other
carriers and forwarders)
Same goes for comcast.
Even a softfail ~all will help out buckets.
It's all but eliminated the backscatter we send to hotmail. If they can
do it....
-mark
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