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Re: first spf-enabled spam

2004-04-12 12:11:57
David wrote:

well, spf was intended to stop email forgeries (among other things),
this particular use of spf does not stop email forgeries as any spammer
could hack a computer in this isp cable zone and start using all kind
of addresses of this domain (including the ones of the isp staff)
without any problem, well, it would be better as this forged emails will
be apparently be trusted by others as they are spf protected.

I don't think that any use of SPF can protect a machine from being hacked. :)

By the way, it looks like the MAPS DUL (http://mail-abuse.org/dul/) list does not list 213.48.36.173, but maybe it should.

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