[Gllug] spam

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:44:12AM +0100, Alain wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:21:58AM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:
> 
> > >> and how do they fake the sender id as ME sending it back to the
> > >> original address  ?
> 
> I meant to mention that you can stop it appearing to be FROM you by implementing
> SPF: setting a DNS record & checking it. However I know that some on this list do
> not like SPF.

SPF is broken, at least for its intended purpose.  It's only any use as
some extra information for spamassassin (or your intelligent spam filter
of choice). 

Ironically, spammers are now some of the most enthusiastic users of SPF.

-- 
Bruce

Remember you're a Womble.
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