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Re: SPF will solve spam and punish spammers

2004-07-23 10:11:04
Daniel Taylor wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
| 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..."

Sure, but where are these reputation systems going to come from? And who's going to pay for them, particularly given that they'll be a magnet for litigation from the owners of domains that think their reputations should be better than they are (just like Harris/Yesmail etc. effectively litigated MAPS out of existence as far as most of the Internet is concerned)?

Paul.