On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Rodolfo Sikora wrote:
There are tons of people that like to receive these super cheap meds,
or buy viagra, or even apply for a mortgage. And, once you start to
block this kind of email u'll be violating people rights... or
whatever.
I think isn't interesting for spammers mail wrong people, they waste
money and time. So I really HOPE that SPF will make things at least
more clear and easy to track. I won't block a spammer that has his SPF
registered domain sending useful stuff unless it "burns" my smtp
servers with junk or my users complain, or if they are sending porn
stuff (I think this is the biggest problem regarding spam)
A good point. And besides porn (defined as receiving unsolicited
stuff that you find obscene and offensive/immoral), many (90% according
to one sample of 1000 offers) of the products offered are scams (e.g. collect
info for mortgage offer then steal your identity). However, scams do not want
the law to be able to find them easily, so SPF will help protect those
who like to buy from spam.
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