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

I stop about 98 percent of our spam organizationally, the problem is 
that the total numbers are going up, so the 2 percent that we DON'T stop 
represents a bigger and bigger number....
Julian Mehnle wrote:
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> Bill Adragna wrote:
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> > 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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