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Re: Forwading/Redirecting: The problem as I see it....

2005-07-08 08:57:51
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Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
An SPF pass is useful for whitelisting.  You can already blacklist
a domain without regard to forgery, [...]

No, you can't.  If I started sending out spam using 
(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)(_at_)debian(_dot_)org as the 
envelope sender, would you blacklist debian.org?

As soon as you have collected hard evidence that mail _genuinely_ claiming 
to come from debian.org justifies a bad reputation for that domain, only 
then can you go on to blacklisting any mail whatsoever claiming to come 
from debian.org, genuinely or not, without checking its sender address 
authenticity.  But you can collect hard evidence only based on authentica- 
ted sender addresses.
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