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RE: AOL to ESPs: Comply with SPF, Or Else

2004-06-12 04:16:04
Alan Hodgson [ahodgson(_at_)simkin(_dot_)ca] wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:50:55AM -0700, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
I think when most spammers publish SPF records, we will have won.
That was the original intent anyway: Get the spammers to show
themselves and get a way to hold them accountable.

I'm waiting to see the first one that publishes
exists:%{ir}.cbl.abuseat.org (however you'd actually express that) :p

Well, publishing "+all" certainly would be a lot simpler.

All that, however, doesn't matter, because we can just blacklist the
domain in question if spam originates claiming to be from there.  If the
spammer says "+all", i.e. "everyone can use my domain", we don't need to
accept messages from that domain at all.