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Re: SPF @ AOL --- record may flicker

2004-01-09 11:50:32
Quoting Meng Weng Wong (mengwong(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com):
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:32:53AM -0500, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
| summary: don't be surprised if AOL turns off the record over the weekend
| or even the next week while they collate data.  This is why it's
| important that they hear from us "look, with just a few MTAs running SPF
| we caught BIGNUM spams" so please report what numbers you can get
| tomorrow.

As expected, AOL has backed out the SPF thing for the weekend.  This
gives us some time to analyze the repercussions.  If you gathered
statistics over this period, please report them and we'll pass them on
to him.


I rejected 17 aol forgeries yesterday and 10 today before they
removed the record.  One of the rejects yesterday was sent by a
kodak.com service of some sort and was not spam.

My spf checks are made after other restrictions like open proxies
and dynamic IP space so the number that spf by itself would have
rejected is probably much higher.  During the same time period I
rejected 378 with aol addresses for other reasons.

26 rejections is not a BIGNUM but a few here, a few there, ...

John Capo


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