Point accepted, but - why do they market it as such? Nigel
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:45:01 -0400, Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Nigel Frankcom wrote: > >>Admittedly not much, >> >>My biggest issue was yahoo sporting anti spam options in a spam mail. >> >> > >My biggest issue would be the assumption that domainkeys is an anti-spam >option. It's not. Period. No matter what some people at slashdot might >think, it is NOT an anti-spam technique. > >Domainkeys, like SPF, is an anti forgery technology. Nothing more. > >Anyone who tells you otherwise is overstating it's benefits or does not >understand the technology. > >While anti-forgery techniques are slightly helpful to the anti-spam >community in tracking down the actual source of a message, they do not >in any way prevent someone from sending spam that is not forged. > >Really all this buys you is discouraging forgery by making it easy to >detect. This has the side effect that when spam isn't forged, it's >easier to get the originating accounts terminated. > > >That's all it offers in terms of anti-spam efforts. It's not really >much, but it's a lot better than looking at the RDNS names in the >Received: headers to try to "verify" what domain a mail really came from. > > > > >
