--- On Tue, 3/26/13, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Besides which, real spammers are much more likely to take the trouble
> to set up SPF properly than an ordinary person who just wants to send
> you a message that you'd want to see.

1)  When a spammer uses SPF, recipients KNOW the spammer domains and servers 
and automatically block them.  Such is most effective with a shared reporting 
namespace of spammers (like spamhaus or spamcop).  Unless they're registering 
domains with stolen credit cards, burning alot of domains like that is going to 
get expensive, even with the cheapest registration services.

2)  Spammers seem to be avoiding spoofing domains that have proper SPF records 
set up, while not embracing SPF for their own domains.  (cf. 
http://spf-all.com/  - where only 0.6% of domains having SPF records used 
"+all" -- 139,000 of 88 million.)
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