On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:55:23AM +0000, Fridrik Skulason 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.
I'm afraid your theory doesn't validate: i've had this reduce in bounces
_long_ before the germans arrested the kid.
Koen
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