OT: spammers are using my domain again

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 02:48, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> On Fre, 2004-10-08 at 01:59 -0300, Trevor Smith wrote:
> > So I'm getting tons of bounces because the spammers have made their way back 
> > around to my personal domain and are sending out their crap with 
> > <something>@haligonian.com as the forged From: address.
> 
> Same here :-(
> 
> > Does anyone know of anything I could do to get them to move on from spoofing 
> > my domain to spoofing the next victim's domain?
> 
> Do you use SPF (http://spf.pobox.com) yet? I do and if only everybody
> else did as well this would effectively prevent forging domains.
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the problem with spf is that it is a Microsoft patented technology that
causes a fair amount of concern regarding their commitment and
intentions

see:
<http://apache.org/foundation/docs/sender-id-position.html>

of course, there is the opinion that it is ineffective too!
see:
<http://www.ciphertrust.com/spf_stats>

YMMV

Craig