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[spf-discuss] Re: advice wrong, or is it?

2007-12-21 14:59:01
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Bill Adragna wrote:
I've been following this for years, and somebody tell me,
what will prevent the spammers from getting a valid SPF record for
themselves, thus blowing up the whole point of the SPF record? 

There seems to be a misunderstanding.  The point of SPF is not to stop 
spam but to stop sender address forgery.  If spammers set up SPF records 
for their own domains (which is of course what they have been doing for 
years), then we can authenticate mails from their domains with confidence 
and blacklist their domains.  All the better.

If you want to stop spam, please try SpamAssassin or some other anti-spam 
solution.

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