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Re: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Article On Anti-Spam Technologies Mentions SPF

2004-11-16 08:41:14
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:42:41AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
http://www.eff.org/wp/?f=SpamCollateralDamage.html

Worth reading.  Seems reasonably ept from an technical perspective.

The want open relays ?!?!?

Remark about (amongst others) SPF:
 `` Many have described the email authentication systems as promoting a
    policy that says email is "spam unless proven otherwise."  ''

They seem to forget many of their problems can be circumvented by:

- using a real, existing sender address
- using a properly configured server, including but not limited to
  its DNS records (both forward and reverse) and HELO
- using plain text messages, not html and no web bugs, beacons or
  whatever it is called.  No exe files and such more

I am not impressed.

Alex


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