On Mon, 16 May 2005, Julian Mehnle wrote:
Obviously this isn't true. I keep getting lots of misdirected bounces from
idiots who don't bother checking this German propaganda spam against my
SPF records, which only give "Pass" or "Fail" results.
When they send an actual DSN, it doesn't bother me because I use SRS
to reject bounces to forged email. The problem is the %^$&#$ stupid
spam/virus filters that send replies instead of a proper DSN.
But it's an interesting theory, as this may very well become a reality with
another virm/spam run soon.
Haven't seen any exceptions over here. I guess that just underscores
how useless an SPF record with ?all is.
What annoys me most is that too many ignorants are still not checking SPF
records (see my first paragraph). We need quicker adoption of SPF.
If they would only send proper DSNs, I'd be happy.
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