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Re: new draft RFC: thoughts on localpart

2003-10-16 15:50:41
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:10:02PM +0100, Phil White wrote:
| 
| Big problem
| 
| Many DNS admins forget to disable general AXFR for their zonefile.
| Result: You have just published a list of addresses spammers can use to 
| circumvent SPF.

You're right.  It is a big problem.

But who does it hurt most?  The people who caused the problem.

They should be motivated to fix it.

If we end up using this mechanism, I'll put a note about AXFR in the
installation instructions.

Other mechanisms do not suffer from this problem; let's see some of them!

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