Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:41:46 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to deal with spam for good? Message-ID: <200503101341.49900.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <577aeb585de8853de552772d76cb2a96@lafn.org> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIELBFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <577aeb585de8853de552772d76cb2a96@lafn.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thursday 10 March 2005 12:40, Doug Hardie wrote: > Unfortunately it does nothing for the spammers who get their own domain > and establish their own SPF records. Not necessarily true. If you can *force* senders to tie themselves to their own domain, then it becomes rather easy to blacklist that particular domain. Imagine having a DNS blackhole list that was 100% accurate with no chance of collateral damage. If SPF (or another similar system) were universally deployed, then such things would be possible. > Likewise SPF will not close any of the open relays run by the > organizations that are pushing SPF. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Could you elaborate? > Spam will only go away when people no longer respond to it. You know, I'm no longer sure that's true. I think that spam will stick around as long as stupid business owners continue to get suckered into thinking that it's a legitimate means of marketing. One of my associate's customers (a brick and mortar store) was being sweet-talked by a spammer into sending a series of broadcasts. In this situation, the spammer would profit off the ignorance of that *business owner*. Even if 100% of the messages were blocked, he'd still get his pay for performing the "service". -- Kirk Strauser [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBCMKL95sRg+Y0CpvERAll4AJ4m3TslpkteAi8RPBkdxofcsZ8aQQCgmMf9 vrp5TU2JfDHAxJHATrsODx8= =E3Le -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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