>From your own sources: "But Wong, who co-authored both the SPF and Sender ID standards, said that stopping spam was never the intention of SPF or Sender ID. The technology is merely a way to stop one loophole spammers use: source address spoofing. Evidence that spammers are publishing SPF records is a good sign, Meng said.
'Spammers are buying into a future that will wipe them out', he said. In theory, when all spammers are forced to publish SPF records, along with all legitimate e-mail senders, it will be easy for legitimate companies to develop e-mail reputations for Internet domains that do and do not send spam, he said." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-5357269.html > > or > > http://www.spamfo.co.uk/component/option,com_content/task,view > /id,118/Itemid,2/ > > or > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/31/HNspammerstudy_1.html > > the list goes on... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alexander Hagenah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <xmail@xmailserver.org> > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:24 AM > Subject: [xmail] Re: senderid > > >> Mike Harrington wrote on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 3:56 AM: >> >>> Spammers can (and have) create SPF records for themselves. >> >> No, they can't. But they can evaluate them from the server. >> That's the real problem. >> In fact, it's a good idea, but not really practicable. >> >> -- >> >> Regards, >> Alexander Hagenah >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >> the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
