Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

Wed Sep 8 11:14:54 UTC 2004

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, vijay gill wrote:

> But if instead of foobar.com, it is vix.com or citibank.com, then 
> their SPF records will not point at randomgibberish.comcast.net as 
> an authorized sender. That means that if I do get a mail purporting 
> to be from citi from randomgibberish, I can junk it without 
> hesitation.

Yes, all we need for SPF to work is for spammers to play along and 
cooperate, and we'll be able to filter out the spam they send.

Earth calling... ;)

> /vijay

regards,
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