OT: spammers are using my domain again
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Fri Oct 8 16:13:45 UTC 2004
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:12:44PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> This won't actually stop them spoofing your domain (most spammers aren't
>> terribly bright, as can be seen from the many spams landing in my junkmail
>> folder these days with "Received: from %RNDDIGIT[1]%RNDDIGIT[2]" etc. in
>> the headers). However, you'll feel better knowing that a few less of their
>> spams get through to sites implementing SPF checks or running SpamAssassin
>> 3.x.
>
> It won't stop them from doing it, but it makes it very easy for anyone to
> see that the messages are forged. Eventually, when enough people check, it
> _will_ stop them.
yeah except without pra (covered by microsoft patent applications) spf is
prone to spoofing as well.
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