[NCLUG] spam help

[Jake Edge]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> I'd highly recommend you use SPF, it really helps.  I can't remember the
> last time we had someone forging our address, since we set up SPF records.

unfortunately, there are quite a number of technical problems with SPF 
that render it largely useless, see, for instance:

http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html
http://bradknowles.typepad.com/considered_harmful/2004/05/spf.html

it would appear that the major users of SPF records are spammers ...

jake

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