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Re: AW: Uptick in spam


From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 08:26:31 -0400

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 08:09:00AM -0400, Ian Smith wrote:
This is the part that's been bugging me.  Doesn't the NANOG server
implement SPF checking on inbound list mail?

Don't know, but it doesn't matter: SPF has zero anti-spam value.
(I know.  I've studied this in ridiculous detail using a very large
corpus of spam/nonspam messages over a very long period of time.)
There are much better methods available.

---rsk


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