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Re: Uptick in spam
From: Colin Johnston <colinj () gt86car org uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:37:03 +0000
hosted gmail did catch some of the spam but not all , into auto junk filter due to some of the weblinks were spammy Colin
On 27 Oct 2015, at 14:18, Ian Smith <ian.w.smith () gmail com> wrote: I'm not making any argument about the relation of SPF compliance to message quality or spam/ham ratio. You are no doubt correct that at this point in the game SPF doesn't matter with respect to message quality in a larger context, because these days messages that are not SPF compliant will simply never arrive, and therefore aren't sent. I'm saying that SPF helps prevent envelope header forgery, which is what it was designed to do. The fact that NANOG isn't checking SPF (and it isn't, I tested) was exploited and resulted in a lot of spam to the list. This wasn't caught by receiving servers (like Gmail's, for example) because they checked mail.nanog.org against the nanog.org spf record, which checked out. You can argue that envelope header forgery is irrelevant, and that corner cases don't matter. But I think this latest incident provides a good counterexample that it does matter. And it's easy to fix, so why not fix it? -Ian
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- Re: AW: Uptick in spam, (continued)
- Re: AW: Uptick in spam Rich Kulawiec (Oct 27)
- Re: AW: Uptick in spam Geoffrey Keating (Oct 27)
- Re: AW: Uptick in spam Peter Beckman (Oct 27)
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- Re: AW: Uptick in spam John Levine (Oct 27)
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- Re: Uptick in spam Jutta Zalud (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Ian Smith (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Rich Kulawiec (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Ian Smith (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Colin Johnston (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam anthony kasza (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Rich Kulawiec (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Peter Beckman (Oct 27)
- Re: more FUSSPs, Uptick in spam John Levine (Oct 27)
- Re: more FUSSPs, Uptick in spam Ian Smith (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Connor Wilkins (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Octavio Alvarez (Oct 28)
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- Re: AW: Uptick in spam Jim Popovitch (Oct 28)