Print Page | Close Window

SPF - Spammers best Friend (for now...) Any thoughts on this?

Printed From: LogSat Software
Category: Spam Filter ISP
Forum Name: Spam Filter ISP Support
Forum Description: General support for Spam Filter ISP
URL: https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=4258
Printed Date: 09 May 2025 at 6:51pm


Topic: SPF - Spammers best Friend (for now...) Any thoughts on this?
Posted By: Guests
Subject: SPF - Spammers best Friend (for now...) Any thoughts on this?
Date Posted: 13 September 2004 at 11:53am

Spammers use sender authentication too, study says
They've adopted the technology faster than legitimate e-mail senders

from:
 http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,95617,00.html" CLASS="ASPForums" TITLE="WARNING: URL created by poster. - http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,95617,00.html" CLASS="ASPForums" TITLE="WARNING: URL created by poster. - http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,95617,00.html

Maybe early adoption isn't the best idea....

 


Replies:
Posted By: LogSat
Date Posted: 13 September 2004 at 4:18pm
Ric,

SPF was never meant to completly eliminate spam, but only to prevent email spoofing, where spammers use fake "from" email addresses. These "fake" addresses can be aol, earthlink, your own customers, or some poor innocent sould who would all of a sudden receivive thousands of emails saying "don't spam me" form people who received spam apparently from him. SPF will prevent this from happening in the future. The fact that spammers use SPF themselves simply means that they'll have to use a real domain they somehow own or control to send emails from, without "stealing" someone else's identity.

Roberto F.
LogSat Software


Print Page | Close Window