Re: VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter)

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 13:37 -0400, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> 
> Innerfire.net used to be foraged as a spam sender every other month and 
> gmack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx so often that I still have procmail filters to 
> redirect bounces to their own folder.  The thousands of messages I was 
> getting was infuriating but it has been a very rare event since I setup 
> SPF on my domain.
> 
> SPF may not filter spam much but if you set it to autofail you can reduce 
> the risk for innocent mail admins. 

There are much better ways to achieve that same effect. I don't get
_any_ faked bounces to dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx any more, and I didn't have
to disavow _valid_ forwarded mail in order to achieve that.

-- 
dwmw2

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