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Date:      Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:11:07 -0500
From:      eculp@casasponti.net
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
Message-ID:  <20081016121107.17qwm4xcs6kgwg884@intranet.casasponti.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0810160846040.473@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org>
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Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> escribi=F3:

>
>
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>> Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these =20
>> rules[*], use
>> of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely =20
>> prevent the
>> spammers from joe-jobbing you.
>
> I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week.
> My mail provider publishes SPF records.
> If the names and numbers in the bouceback messages are to be =20
> believed, however, the spammers have defeated SPF by hijacking DNS.  =20
> The poor recipients never see my SPF records because they're looking =20
> at the wrong IP address.

Thanks, Matthew.  I guess that is the root problem of spf, the =20
spammers, that it is supposed to stop.  It looks a bit like our =20
economy, a loosing battle.

It really make me feel impotent this morning.

Have a great day,

ed




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