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Re: SPF too late?

2004-11-17 13:10:28
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Chris Drake wrote:

BrightMail claims false-positive rates of 1 in a billion. I've been
using it for 3 days, and it's been spot-on so far (I get a *lot* of
junk and a lot of legitimate mail).  There's no need for SPF or
SenderID or anything else if it can keep this up.  Dunno how it works

Sounds wonderful - but irrelevant for the problem SPF is trying
to solve.  SPF tries to prevent *forgery*, not spam.

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