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Re: MX Logic CTO speaks out on spam and authentication

2004-11-16 20:42:17
Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
Below is a good article on how I few SPF as well.

See below for my comments!

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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:20:01 -0600
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11/16/04
Today's focus: MX Logic CTO speaks out on spam and authentication


Today's focus: MX Logic CTO speaks out on spam and authentication

By Michael Osterman

Scott Chasin, CTO for MX Logic, had some interesting comments on spam and authentication at last week's FTC/NIST Email Authentication Summit.

Here's some of what he had to say:

* Spammers can quite easily publish their own Sender Policy ��Framework (SPF) record. In September, MX Logic reviewed 10 ��million spam messages that flowed through its network, ��representing more than 400,000 unique domains, and found that ��one in six of these domains had SPF records.

* Spammers can leverage throwaway domains quite easily. New ��domains can be registered quite easily and propagated throughout ��the Internet within a matter of hours. Domain registrars are ��plentiful and compete heavily on price, often not even requiring ��a credit card to register a domain. As a result, a spammer can ��register a domain, publish an SPF record for it and then discard ��the domain just as easily.

What CRAP!

I have debunked it!

http://www.moongroup.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=2

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