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Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess



On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 08:52, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> >So, adding handling for SPF RRs in one's MTA yields significant
> >advantages today, despite the technology being new, because _all_ of the
> >forgemail claiming to be from aol.com, msn.com, hotmail.com, pobox.com,
> >etc. can be detected all in one step.
>
> Well, I guess the spammers will have to use different addresses. That
> shouldn't take long.

Which leads to more spam that uses addresses from small domains in the From: 
field, and thus more need for administrators of small servers to implement 
SPF records to counter it.

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