> On Oct 25, 2025, at 6:07 AM, John Levine via mailop <[email protected]> wrote: > > It appears that Mark Foster via mailop <[email protected]> said: >> Sadly more than one case I have been across, was a researcher who made >> the revolutionary discovery of a missing SPF record. And this is before >> AI made it easier to automate. >> There are people out there who think this is a significant and useful >> contribution to society. > > The IETF often gets reports telling us that our DMARC is misconfigured because > we have p=none. They seem to be real people hoping to get paid to mitigate > our > "problem" (they have real looking Linkedin) but they sure are bad at picking > their targets. > > I tell them to say "please remove all ietf.org addresses from your spam > list(s)" > but they keep being more polite than that. > > I also get the spam asking for bug bounties. I tell them we have a generous > bounty program, but they need to register first and pay a nominal $100 > registration fee.
Ditto to both over at the dayjob (software co with a very old .org domain), where I receive info@, not so I can respond, but so I can spot all the scams and spams. Man, it's a poop show out there. -Dan _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
