On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:53:52 +1300 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2007 10:52 PM, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All headers bar the last one can be extremely simply faked, so they are > > pretty useless to use to identify the email's provenance. Because of this, > > some ISPs are clamping down on this. The Sender Policy Framework ( eg > > http://www.openspf.org/ ) is an attempt to cut down on spam. This defines > > where an email has to be sent from to be treated as valid. > > Surely SPF doesn't cut down on spam, it merely cuts down on address spoofing? > > Admittedly a lot of spam uses spoofed addresses at the moment ... but > there's not a direct relationship _per se_ between an address-spoofed > message and a spam message ... > > -jim OK, call it a beneficial side effect if you want. In real world terms it does help. Steve
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