At 7:43 PM -0400 9/10/04, Barry Shein imposed structure on a stream
of electrons, yielding:
On September 10, 2004 at 17:21 esr(_at_)thyrsus(_dot_)com (Eric S. Raymond)
wrote:
> Barry Shein <bzs(_at_)world(_dot_)std(_dot_)com>:
> > Spammers no longer use static domains, and they haven't for years.
>
> That's right. They joe-job my domain instead, and I get over a
> thousand bogus bounces a day. If SPF deployment does nothing but stop
> that (which it can), it's a win. Meng has picked this piece of the
> problem and is addressing it effectively.
So now SPF is mostly useful for people with vanity domains who run
SMTP for those vanity domains?
Which is getting down to a pretty microscopic portion of the
community.
It's also quite useful for owners of the more commonly forged domains
such as AOL, Microsoft, Earthlink, and non-ISP companies whose brand
recognition makes them common targets.
Not such a microscopic portion. Frankly I find the last one most
useful because I work in that realm and frankly could not care less
about the ongoing viability of cheap mass-market consumer ISP's. I do
care about the daily myriads of bogus bounces hitting systems I have
to keep running and what they imply about how widely garbage mail is
claiming to be from my employer.
--
Bill Cole
bill(_at_)scconsult(_dot_)com
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