Re: SPF and spammers

[Codger]

But the fact that they do create the SPF records then makes all the 
other rules like SURBL more effective. The strength they have had till 
SPF has been the fact that the could forge domains.

If you already use a blacklisting host(s) and also use SPF then the 
combination would be more effective than either alone, whether the SPF 
added or removed points even.

On Sep 13, 2004, at 3:01 PM, Bill Landry wrote:
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Subject: Re: SPF and spammers

But still, my recommendation is to use an SPF pass to decrease the 
spam
score and to not use SFP fails to blacklist.
That would be a very bad idea, since more spammers have created SPF 
records
than legitimate domains (been lots of information about this in the 
tech
press lately).  I would not give any benefit to SPF pass, but would
certainly penalize SFP fail.

Bill

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