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Re: major forwarders in trusted-forwarder.org

2004-01-09 17:13:58
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 Tim Gladding <tim(_at_)gladding(_dot_)com> writes:

Be warned.  Expect trusted-forwarders.org to be DDOS'd out of service
(like many DNSBLs have been) in the hope that people will give up on SPF.

I very much considered this possibility before creating the DNSWL.  I
don't think it will be DDoS'ed.  It hasn't been yet.  Why?  Well,
because SPF isn't popular enough to be worth the spammer's time to
worry about.  Once SPF becomes popular, any DDoS attack would most
likely force email forwarding services to implement SRS rather than
force everyone to stop using SPF.

Since trusted-forwarder.org is a *white*list, it doesn't directly
attack spammers' operations.  It is SPF in general that will cause
spammers a certain level of problems, and attacking
trusted-forwarder.org won't be very effective.  The DCC, spamassassin,
Cpan, SPAM-L, etc. websites are probably better targets.


-wayne


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