Spoofed.
Sorry, I was doing a friday afternoon "blonde" response. I signed up
to gmail and have been getting lots of lovely offers to be given
millions of dollars if I just go to Amsterdam and meet with someone
about a package... all the email comes from yahoo (valid server) and
you are right.. if yahoo is valid.. then crap can be sent from it
So, I have to register my little box in the corner as a valid sender
of email.. to 5 different agencies... I guess depending on what emails
the people that are registering have..... will this increase the "no
hotmail users here!" attitude in a lot of websites?
Is it ethical tho? hotmail saying who can email me?
Stupid questions I know.. c;mon.. it is friday
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 19:06:36 +0200, Jochem van Dieten
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark Drew wrote:
>
> > Brilliant... kill spam!
>
> It might prevent spammers from using somebody elses domain in the
> from address. But with the current price of domain names (and the
> move of a certain registrar to make updating NS records much more
> realtime) what is to stop a spammer from just using a valid from
> address from one of the thousands of domains he owns himself, and
> with an SPF record that points to any of the infected spam
> zombies he has under his control?
>
> SPF won't kill spam in any meaningfull way. It will do a lot of
> good for Hotmail in other ways. Since domain spoofing becomes
> harder, it will protect the reputation of Hotmail itself. And it
> will lock people in to the web interface of Hotmail, because
> sending email from your local email client with a hotmail.com
> address will be impossible. You will be required to use that
> awfull webinterface all the time.
>
> In other ways SPF will do a lot of bad things. It will kill this
> mailinglist. You will be receiving email from the IP address of
> the HoF server, but the from address is not tudelft.nl. And it is
> quite unlikely that the tudelft.nl SPF record will include the
> HoF server IP. Result: the email will be rejected.
>
> Jochem
>
>
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