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Re: Whitelisting

2004-08-11 01:35:36
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:40:07AM +0200, Emmanuel Ormancey wrote:
   SPF will not block spam, but will help blocking forged email senders.

   Spammers  using  real  domains and real addresses will configure their
   SPF  record accordingly, so how can the SPF record be used to populate
   a whitelist ? A valid SPF record / Pass Spf check cannot be trusted as
   non Spam (on the opposite, a SPF Failed check could be rejected).

   How AOL or Hotmail will implement this, as they are both talking about
   whitelisting ? And how do you plan to implement this ?

I thought they had whitelists already, and you could pay them to get on these 
lists. Staying on them requires (in addition to paying) that you publish spf. 
That's what I thought, but i might be entirely wrong. Hotmail and/or AOL or not 
really of any interrest to me, so i'm usually ignoring news about them.

Koen

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