On Monday, August 27, 2007 9:27 AM Magnus Holmgren wrote:

> For spammers to be able to send SPF-authenticated spam using botnets,
> they usually have to authorize ridiculously large address blocks, for
> example with "+all" or "+a:0.0.0.0/2 +a:64.0.0.0/2 +a:128.0.0.0/2
> +a:192.0.0.0/2", so it's possible to check for that.

Has anyone verified that spammers are actually doing this yet, and how common it
is?  If so, it sounds like a good rule to add to the SPF protocol itself to save
every implementation from having to check on their own.


Jason A. Bertoch
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