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SPAM is a nasty problem[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#1)
by Anonymous User on Thu Aug 09, 2007 at 12:20:51 PM PDT

One person's SPAM is another's treasure. SPAM works or it wouldn't be so pernicious. The problem is deciding whether a particular email is or isn't SPAM.

AOL's pay based model is obviously not the answer.

A verified sender program would drastically knock down the level of SPAM from botnets, but no one seems able to create a standard that everyone is able or willing to follow. Sender Policy Framework (SPF) http://www.openspf.org/, for example, works rather well, when it's configured right. If it was in general use, the SPAM pretending to be from the government (FBI, IRS) or any well known corporation would simply be dumped. Unfortunately, not everyone has set it up, even though it only takes minutes to do so.

If the corporations whose domain names are being forged by spammers aren't interested in taking 5 minutes of their DNS admin's time to do it, I guess SPAM just isn't that much of a problem to them.

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Re: SPAM is a nasty problem[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#5)
by veritek on Fri Aug 10, 2007 at 07:20:03 AM PDT

SPF won't stop spam. Period. It may stop forgeries, but even that is debatable. It's too easy for the spammers/fishers to use the same old social engineering techniques to convince people to buy their junk, respond to 419 scams, etc. SPF has it's place, but it is far from being a panacea to end spam. Not to mention the impracticalities of getting every mail server and domain on the entire Internet to upgrade to SPF compatible software. You'd have an easier time trying to educate the entire Internet userbase on how to properly report/ignore spam.

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