On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, John Keown wrote:
I will give one example just given to me on another list where spf will not
even slow spam on zombies.
I could care less. All I want is that mail from amazon.com is really
from amazon.com. For instance, dealing with azerty.com is a pain because
they have no SPF, no reverse DNS, no nothing to authenticate the main
they send. Today, the boss ordered some tapes from azerty.com. He
said "whitelist azerty.com - I need to get their email!". I said,
tell me which IP is really azerty, and I'll be happy to add a record for
them to our local surrogate SPF data. After a brief shouting match, we
ended up watching the log to see which IP claiming to be azerty.com
tried to connect a few seconds after he asked their web site to reset
his password. This turned out to be the correct one. I have no
idea how non-geek customers tell the fraudulent azerty mail from the
genuine. I guess they know azerty doesn't sell enlargers for selected
parts of human anatomy.
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Stuart D. Gathman <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
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