OT: spammers are using my domain again
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Oct 8 14:15:16 UTC 2004
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:12:44PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> This won't actually stop them spoofing your domain (most spammers aren't
> terribly bright, as can be seen from the many spams landing in my junkmail
> folder these days with "Received: from %RNDDIGIT[1]%RNDDIGIT[2]" etc. in
> the headers). However, you'll feel better knowing that a few less of their
> spams get through to sites implementing SPF checks or running SpamAssassin
> 3.x.
It won't stop them from doing it, but it makes it very easy for anyone to
see that the messages are forged. Eventually, when enough people check, it
_will_ stop them.
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