[Mimedefang] OT but interesting hopefully - Spammers embrace email authentication

[Jeff Rife]

On 3 Sep 2004 at 10:42, Kelson wrote:

> Check out www.surbl.org.  They're actually quite effective at catching 
> spam based on domain names - in this case of the websites being 
> spamvertized - despite the turnover potential.

Correct, but SPF alone can't do anything about domains like this.  

If you use some other check (like SURBL), then you don't need SPF at 
all, because all the current SPAM tests know how to hunt out forgeries.


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