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Re: SPAM is a nasty problem[ Parent ] (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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