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Massive SPAM Increase Oct 06 2006 11:02PM Alex (incidents alex gotdns org) (2 replies) Re: Massive SPAM Increase Oct 08 2006 09:30PM Kurt Seifried (bt seifried org) (1 replies) Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} Oct 09 2006 01:15AM Vini Engel (vini fugspbr org) (1 replies) Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} Oct 09 2006 04:06AM Kurt Seifried (bt seifried org) (1 replies) Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 09 2006 05:06AM Vini Engel (vini fugspbr org) (1 replies) Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 09 2006 06:33PM Paul Schmehl (pauls utdallas edu) (3 replies) Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 14 2006 02:46AM Valdis Kletnieks vt edu (1 replies) Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 14 2006 03:52AM Paul Schmehl (pauls utdallas edu) (3 replies) Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 17 2006 01:20AM Jamie Riden (jamesr europe com) Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 16 2006 05:04PM benfell raven cybernude org (2 replies) Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 16 2006 05:38PM Paul Schmehl (pauls utdallas edu) (1 replies) Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 17 2006 01:44AM gabriel rosenkoetter (gr eclipsed net) Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 14 2006 05:44AM Valdis Kletnieks vt edu (1 replies) Re: ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 14 2006 05:17PM Paul Schmehl (pauls utdallas edu) (2 replies) Re: ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 17 2006 01:59AM Dude VanWinkle (dudevanwinkle gmail com) Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 09 2006 11:09PM Graeme Fowler (G E Fowler lboro ac uk) (1 replies) Re: Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 09 2006 11:43PM Luke Burton (luke burton echidna id au) (1 replies) Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 09 2006 09:29PM Tim (tim-forensics sentinelchicken org) (2 replies) Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 09 2006 10:33PM Paul Schmehl (pauls utdallas edu) (2 replies) Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 09 2006 10:47PM Nathaniel Hall (nathaniel d hall gmail com) Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6} Oct 09 2006 10:28PM Brent Kearney (brent kearneys ca) (1 replies) |
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> On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 12:17:51PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> > It appears that what you're missing is that this one "flaw" is not enough
> > to get mail rejected by policyd-weight.
>
> What you're missing is that the assumption that systems sending
> valid mail will always (or even will usually) be listed in DNS is
> fundamentally wrong and should never be used even as a weighted
> guess to indicate spam.
Well, they may be listed in SPF records, though I agree not in MX.
And by itself, I don't believe SPF provides a useful indication one
way or the other as to whether a message is spam or not. Lots of
spammers set up SPF records these days.
cheers,
Jamie
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Jamie Riden, CISSP / jamesr (at) europe (dot) com [email concealed] / jamie.riden (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]
NZ Honeynet project - http://www.nz-honeynet.org/
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