Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

Fri Sep 10 07:48:09 UTC 2004

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:59:51PM +0000,
 Paul Vixie <vixie at vix.com> wrote 
 a message of 27 lines which said:

> you could bet that by closing off this avenue, SPF will force
> spammers to use other methods that are more easily
> detected/filtered, and that if you play this cat&mouse game long
> enough, it will drive the cost of spam so high (or drive the volume
> benefit so low) that it'll just die out.

Good summary. This is the right strategy.

> but to me, SPF is just a way to rearrange the deck chairs on the
> Titanic.

I can swim but I believe that the water under the Titanic was quite
too cold to stay. Any advice to the people on the NANOG mailing list
before the boat goes down?