[Gllug] Paying to send email..

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Wed Feb 8 18:29:01 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:27 +0000, Nix wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Dan Stevens stated:
> > In essence, I see no logical explaination of how this is going to
> > tackle spam
> 
> Since reducing spam is not the intention of bonded-sender systems,
> that's unsurprising.
> 
> This was *really* badly reported by the media (just like SPF, which the
> media also touted as a spam-killer when it has no such goal).

Doesn't it? Seems to me that is an obvious benefit - in that it blocks
falsified sender addresses. I suppose I am classing phishing as a subset
of spam, but lots of spam seems to have bogus sender addresses.

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