Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

Mon Sep 6 21:05:57 UTC 2004

Niels Bakker <niels=nanog at bakker.net> wrote:
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> No, SPF is not feasible for integration into SpamAssassin.  Some links:
>    http://www.apache.org/foundation/docs/sender-id-position.html
>    http://www.debian.org/News/2004/20040904

Microsoft's encumbered Sender ID and SPF are not the same.

>    http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg03884.html

This URL confirms that Sender ID will not go into Exim, but there is
already SPF support.

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>> That will happen 2 weeks after pigs fly.
> I hear the government has funded a jet-pig initiative...
Well, thats one way for the politicians to justify more pork in the budget.
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