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Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts
From: "Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom () unitedlayer com>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:58:44 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Edward B. Dreger wrote:
Yawn. "If the sender domain isn't forged, the mail isn't spam" is incredibly stupid logic.
No Kidding!
I suppose the next big news article will be that spammers also prefer forging domains that lack SPF records. (Will miracles never cease?)
Amazing :) I think SPF is an important step in getting rid of people pretending to be someone else. If you have SPF records, and they match the mail, chances are you are who you say you are. Finding out who you are behind domain records/etc, thats a different story...
Current thread:
- Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Henry Linneweh (Sep 06)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Peter Corlett (Sep 06)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Will Yardley (Sep 06)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Paul Jakma (Sep 06)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Stephane Bortzmeyer (Sep 06)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Edward B. Dreger (Sep 06)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Tom (UnitedLayer) (Sep 06)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Paul Jakma (Sep 07)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Stephane Bortzmeyer (Sep 07)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Paul Jakma (Sep 07)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts J.D. Falk (Sep 07)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Tom (UnitedLayer) (Sep 06)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Paul Vixie (Sep 07)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Paul Jakma (Sep 07)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts J.D. Falk (Sep 07)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Douglas Otis (Sep 07)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Peter Corlett (Sep 06)
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- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts Paul Jakma (Sep 08)
- Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts vijay gill (Sep 08)