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Re: Uptick in spam
From: Peter Beckman <beckman () angryox com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:00:24 -0400
On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
It would be nice if it did; it would be nice if the fatuous claim made at SPF's introduction ("Spam as a technical problem is solved by SPF") were true. But it's not. It's worthless.
I disagree. Since implementing SPF, there have been no joe-jobs on my accounts, and attempting to pretend to be me via email is difficult where SPF is implemented. I never read or understood that SPF was created to solve the spam problem. It was to give owners of domains a way to say "If you got an email from us from these IPs/hosts, then it is probably from us." It gave domain owners a standardized programmatic way to say to email recipients when to accept or reject email from their domains. SPF is not worthless. However, SPF IS worthless at preventing spam. And while SPF *could* have been implemented by the owner of the email/domain that sent all of the spam to the NANOG list and *if* the mail server for NANOG respected SPF then the emails would have been dropped, it seems one or both is not the case. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman () angryox com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Re: AW: Uptick in spam, (continued)
- Re: AW: Uptick in spam Hunter Fuller (Oct 27)
- Re: AW: Uptick in spam John Levine (Oct 27)
- Re: AW: Uptick in spam Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Jutta Zalud (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Ian Smith (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Rich Kulawiec (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Ian Smith (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Colin Johnston (Oct 27)
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- Re: Uptick in spam Rich Kulawiec (Oct 27)
- Re: Uptick in spam Peter Beckman (Oct 27)
- Re: more FUSSPs, Uptick in spam John Levine (Oct 27)
- Re: more FUSSPs, Uptick in spam Ian Smith (Oct 27)
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- Re: AW: Uptick in spam Jim Popovitch (Oct 28)
- Re: Uptick in spam Ian Smith (Oct 26)
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