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From:
John Peacock
Date:
June 28, 2005 08:34
Subject:
Re: SPF and Greylist
Message ID:
42C16E03.30400@rowman.com
Bikrant Neupane wrote:
> But chances are that spammers may publish their spf record and start spamming.

That's a common misconception about SPF (mostly promulgated it seems by 
the opponents of SPF).  SPF is all about preventing forgery and only 
incidently may be somewhat useful to stop outright spam.

What is far more likely is that spammer will find the lazy 
administrators who set up an SPF record with '-all' and use those 
domains exclusively to forge their return addresses.  Of course, that in 
itself will lead to sites using SPF to discount *any* record containing 
'-all' so spammers will not be able to use this for very long.

John

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