Why so much Hotmail spam lately (was Re: [Mimedefang] Adding supportfor learning our addresses)

[Damrose, Mark]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David F. Skoll

> Hotmail publishes SPF records, and I guess spammers hope that a "pass"
> will help their mail get through.  I've evolved my thinking 
> on SPF so I use it as follows:

I've seen several spammers publish SPF themselves.  Even ROKSO listed
spammers like BlueStream Media.  I simply scrape all the ranges out
of the spf record and drop them in /etc/mail/access.