Thus said Steve Meyers on Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:02:00 MDT: > They're not meant to block spam. They're meant to authenticate where > the email came from.
The most common unauthorized use of someone's domain is spam. Are you saying that the designers of these SMTP hacks had something else in mind? Maybe they were trying to keep Microsoft from influencing IBM's employees by sending fake emails that appear to come from IBM? This would be fraud and a criminal offence; SPF and DomainKeys are not necessary to persuade them from doing that. So what other kinds of people would benefit from using a real domain that belongs to someone else? Andy -- GnuPG ID 0xA63888C9 (D2DA 68C9 BB2B 26B4 8204 2219 A43E F450 A638 88C9) [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 10:40pm up 103 days, 7:18, 2 users, load average: 1.08, 1.13, 1.09 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
