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Re: [LUG] Advice required on SPAM

 

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 22:41 +0100, Simon Waters wrote:

> In theory you can publish an SPF (or other records) to persuade people
> to reject spoofed email, but the reality is most people who reject on
> SPF are smart enough not to bounce messages, but merely refuse them. As
> such SPF probably isn't that effective at reducing the backscatter.
> Although it might marginally reduce the number of people who see the junk.

I'd still like to encourage the use of SPF.  Were it to gain critical
mass then it would be a very useful tool.  Unfortunately there are too
many sysadmins out there who don't understand it properly and implement
it incorrectly.

Alex.


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