[ILUG] Reminder: Please Respond to S.'s Invitation

[Steven Kavanagh]

I think you'd want to revise that opinion a little. The big players like
Eircom, the Imagine group and Irish Broadband have already put these
practises in place already to reduce spam levels.

Regards,

Steve




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> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Colm Buckley <colm at tuatha.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Rory Browne <rbmlist at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Fair enough, but I assumed that if they faked the from address, then
>> spam
>> > filter would reject it as having a faked-from field.
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>> How would it tell?  Use of SPF records isn't really widespread enough to
>> have good spoof detection.  There's nothing tricky about "faking" a from:
>> field; there is simply no authentication built into SMTP.
>>
>> Colm
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