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rejection at SMTP time?

2004-01-19 19:57:17
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:25:11PM -0500, Marc Alaia wrote:
| 
| I think that an unreasonably-high priority is being put on terminating the
| message before full receipt.  The cost-factor may be high now, but once SPF
| is more prevalent spammers will not send non-SPF-compliant emails knowing
| that they will be simply deleted by the receiving system and therefore doing
| it this way will eventually be worthless.  I'd rather we do it right in the
| beginning than having less perfect system because one group of users sees it
| more economically right now....
| 

This could be true.  What do people think will happen?  Any spammers on
the list please speak up, your input is important.  :)

But processing headers is costly.  And I don't know if worms and viruses
will care.



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