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Re: Why will SPF stop SPAM.

2004-08-17 08:22:46
Plus will be easy to block domains if u need too.

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:06:00 -0400, SmallFries 
<smallfries(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
"but they must use a real domain owned by the spammer."

This is the point.  By using their own domain, they can be tracked and jailed.
With the support of the registrars.

-SmallFries




On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:55:23 +0000, Fridrik Skulason 
<frisk(_at_)f-prot(_dot_)com> wrote:
and therefore SPF is very useful for me. It will stop the flow of
bounces (already has done so as it appears, haven't received buckets
full of bounces for months now),

That has *nothing* to do with SPF - you should thank the German police.

The reason is simply that most of those bounces were the the results of
worm transmissions, and when the German police tracked down and arrested
some of the worm authors, the other worm-writing groups went quiet for
a while.

Right now only around 10% of all e-mail contain worms, but it did go
as high as 70% for a while.

If the number of worms goes up again, so will the bounces.

--
Fridrik Skulason   Frisk Software International   phone: +354-540-7400
Author of F-PROT   E-mail: frisk(_at_)f-prot(_dot_)com       fax:   
+354-540-7401



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