Think about this for a moment. If a spammer publishes SPF to assist in delivering their spam, then they're sending through their own mail servers....making it much easier to block them by IP!
Besides which, SPF Fail is the only criteria that should be given weight, as it means that someone is sending through a mail server that should NOT, according to SPF, be used. Thus it is most likely a forgery (virus or spam). Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:49 AM Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] A Quick Note from the Ipswitch Executive Team IF the spammers publish SPF records, and the spam gets through, there's an audit trail that allows legal remedies. That's not a problem (unless spammers are overseas - That's not gonna' happen<g>, Yeah, right). But overseas spammers are far simpler to blacklist for a lot of us. Dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Galerneau Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 6:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] A Quick Note from the Ipswitch Executive Team It's also possible that spammers will also create a new SPF of their own until they are caught them create another. However, unless I really don't understand the dynamics of it all, at least SPF has the promise of getting this spam issue under control a whole lot faster, and probably more likely to keep it that way. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. Clausen Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] A Quick Note from the Ipswitch Executive Team ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 14:35 Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] A Quick Note from the Ipswitch Executive Team > Yes, but there's 56 domains reporting Caller-ID. You can't count them > out<g>. All things being equal, I'd say that SPF has become the defacto standard. Even if Microsoft manages to pull one off here (which I doubt, as I'm sure their position on releasing it without anchors to sink open source), it's so far behind in the game that I can't see it being anything but a bit player. They screwed themselves by trying to be a**holes to the open source crowd, and to all those who didn't want to have one of the key areas of Internet architecture locked into by a certain gang in Redmond, Washington. Between SPF, ISPs blocking outgoing port 25 traffic to all but MTAs, greylisting, anti-spam software like Declue and vigorous blackholing of the few "legitimate' spammers out there, I think the marginalization of spam is probably forseeable in the next two or three years. My feeling is that MS trying to push Sender ID through is just an example of closing the barn door after the cows have come home. -- A. Clausen To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
