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Re: SPF will solve spam and punish spammers

2004-07-23 10:01:26
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Paul Howarth wrote:
| Jonathan Gardner wrote:
|
|> On Thursday 22 July 2004 04:03 pm, Jef Poskanzer wrote:
|>
|>> Jonathan Gardner <jonagard(_at_)amazon(_dot_)com>:
|>>
|>>> SPF does indeed solve the spam problem.  SPF will bring spammers to
|>>> justice.
|>>
|>>
|>> Wrong and wrong.
|>
|>
|> Please refute my arguments. Just telling me I'm wrong won't show me
|> where I went wrong. I laid out my chain of arguments most clearly, and
|> I want to see where I'm wrong, or at least where we disagree.
|
|
| I've been away for a couple of days and haven't yet caught up on my old
| emails so apologies if I'm re-hashing something that's been done to
| death recently, but:
|
| how does SPF stop a spammer using throwaway domains with SPF records
| allowing any zombie to send for the domain, where the domain was
| registered using false information and phished credit card details?
|
It doesn't directly, but the reputation systems it allows
would make it trivial to spot such an attempt.
"hey, this domain is only a week old and has +all? better check
it more closely..."

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