On 2004-03-21 Sven Geggus <sven-im-usenet@???> wrote:
> Andre Grueneberg <andre@???> wrote:
> > Why are you adopting a technology that you correctly found to be
> > braindead?
> As always, there is no black and white, but 100 shades of gray!
> SPF may have its drawbacks, but the SPAM Problem without SPF is certainly
> worse than the forwarding problem we get when adopting SPF.
[...]
SPF has (almost) nothing to do with spam protection. It is is small
verified sender solution (i.e. you know that mail with sender
gfoo@??? was sent from somebody@???). The
short-term[1] spam decrease is just a nice side-effect. It also stops
the /currently/ popular Windows worm/virus combinations.
cu andreas
[1] See spf-homepage.
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