On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:38:20 +1100, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a question you'll have to ask of Yahoo and the SPF people. My guess > is that the pushers of these schemes want their thing adopted for whatever > reason (corporate greed, personal gratification, whatever), but they know > that random people don't care enough about e-mail forgery to really take it > up. However, most everyone online seems to be pretty pissed off about spam, > so saying "this stops spam" will get people interested in the scheme, and > they're hoping that people kinda forget that the system was supposed to stop > spam when people work out, definitively, that it doesn't actually do squat > to stop spam. >
"this stops spam" ? It isn't what they're saying, please read: http://spf.pobox.com/faq.html#churn http://spf.pobox.com/faq.html#howworks FYI, there are some different approaches that check different headers, like Sender-ID but the 'publish the (spf) records' step is always there. Hope that helps, Gustavo Franco -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
