From: "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Kelson wrote:
> > jdow wrote:
> >
> >> Methinks there is a candidate meta rule here. SPF passes and it's in
> >> certain of the BLs leads to a higher score than merely being in the BL.
> >
> >
> > In particular, an SPF (or similar) pass will make RHSBLs
> > (right-hand-side blacklists, for those following along) more useful.
> >
> > I mean, if someone forges a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's dumb.
> > They get a point or two for stupidity. But if knownspammer.biz goes to
> > the effort to set up an SPF policy and sticks to it, the combination SPF
> > pass and RHSBL hit is pretty conclusive.
>
> I'm confused. Are you actually seeing legitimate mail that has a forged
> address from a blacklisted domain?
>
> If not, I don't see the need for a penalty difference between mail from
> blacklisted domains and mail from blacklisted domains that also pass an
> SPF check.
>
> On the other hand, combining whitelists with SPF checks (instead of
> using whitelist_from_rcvd), make a lot of sense to me.
If some mentally deficient spammer has the stupidity to maintain an SPF
record for his spam site that is identified in black lists he probably
should get some additional Brownie Points for his stupidity, eh?
{^_-}
