Re: Why SRS really sucks

>Exactly.  And we are not assigning semantics when we notice that
>local parts beginning with 'SRS' from a particular domain are all
>spam.  It is just a pattern that we blacklist.

Yes, yes you are.  That is what "assigning semantics" means!

>Of course!  We don't know the hashkey, and can't even certain whether
>the signature is valid!  Perhaps the braindead ISP is actually
>an old fashioned open-relay, and the spammers are adding the SRS
>coding to make the spam pass SPF and look like it is coming from
>the ISP.

No no!  You can't assume that you know what ANY of it means.  Just 
because you know for certain you can't understand part of it doesn't 
mean you can go assuming you understand some other part.

If the ISP is braindead, then they deserve to get their whole domain 
rejected.


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