Tobias DiPasquale on 26 Jun 2004 11:34:01 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Spammers Using My Domain


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On Saturday 26 June 2004 05:09, Paul wrote:
| What to do?  I'm getting an increasing number of rejected e-mail
| notifications due to spammers using my domain name.  My domain is
| registered with http://godaddy.com and I use their service to forward
| e-mail addressed to my domain to my Comcast account.  Is there a way to
| use SPF in this case?  Should I run my own mail server?  What else can I
| do?

If you ran your own mailserver, you could implement SPF but it would do 
precious little to stop the joe-jobbing bounce storm (right now, anyway). 
There is very little one can do about this on today's Internet except toss 
out the bounces.

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Tobias DiPasquale
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