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Re: Shocker: DKIM antispam standard can't stop spam


From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:45:35 -0400

On 7/13/07, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
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- -- "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:

>AOL and Yahoo probably have to most incentive for reducing spam.
>Consider how much of storage their storage is dedicated to spam? 10%?
>40%? How much of their bandwidth is used for the same? Thats a lot of
>profit to be harvested for just doing the right thing.

For what its worth, Yahoo! deployed DKIM into Yahoo! mail in
2004:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys

...and:

 http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys

bob@vista:/# nslookup
set type=txt
aol.com
Server:         68.87.68.162
Address:        68.87.68.162#53

Non-authoritative answer:
aol.com text = "v=spf1 ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24
ip4:205.188.144.0/24 ip4:205.188.156.0/23 ip4:205.188.159.0/24
ip4:64.12.136.0/23 ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ptr:mx.aol.com ?all"
aol.com text = "spf2.0/pra ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24
ip4:205.188.144.0/24 ip4:205.188.156.0/23 ip4:205.188.159.0/24
ip4:64.12.136.0/23 ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ptr:mx.aol.com ?all"

Authoritative answers can be found from:
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