Paul on 30 Aug 2005 15:03:48 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Verizon blacklist?


George A. Theall wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:46:56AM -0400, Paul wrote:
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>>George A. Theall wrote:
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>>>Heck, Hotmail uses SPF, but given that approximately 25% of my spam
>>>these days comes from there, all that SPF would do for me wrt incoming
>>>mail is confirm that Microsoft has a problem keeping spammers from
>>>registering with their service. 
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>>The thing is, your mail server needs to use SPF to make use of another
>>domain's SPF record.  There are utilities that help to create SPF
>>records and that test records.  Actually, I believe Mozilla Thunderbird
>>has an extension that checks SPF records for individual messages.
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>Yes, I know that.  My point was that, for my purposes, checking SPF
>records is a waste of cycles.
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I see.  Well, we have to start somewhere.  Spam sucks.
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