Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6}

On 10/16/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Because my laptop might send mail from just about anwhere, I've had to configure
> the SPF in my DNS to say that legitimate mail from my domain might come from
> anywere.  This does not help in the slightest to isolate legitimate mail from
> my domain from "joe job" mail.

Really OT now, but I gotta stick up for SPF:

Even though SPF doesnt solve the issue of spam altogether, it still is
really useful for those institutions and companies that have a lot of
spammers reply-to'ing their domain (AOL/*.edu/Yahoo/<insert list of
people who have implemented it> , even if it isnt handy for the home
network.

-JP<v=spf1 A 127.0.0.1 -all>

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