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Re: SPF on slashdot

2003-10-06 08:24:37
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:54:09AM -0500, Howard Lee Harkness wrote:
| On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 01:10:35 -0400, Meng Weng Wong
| <mengwong(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
| 
| >wayne, you may want to post the faq and objections urls in your replies,
| >that might help.
| 
| Yes, please.  I came here primarily because of /., and I'm very
| curious about how SPF would work.
| 
| It would seem that all the objections I have seen on /. could be
| addressed simply by allowing the reply-to: to be whatever you want, as
| long as the from: is not forgable, so I'm a bit mystified about what
| the uproar is all about.
| 

even the "From:" header is forgeable --- /. neglected to mention it was
the SMTP "MAIL FROM: " that we're aimed at.

The uproar is more about "legit forging" like what eBay apparently does,
as well as roaming.

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