[afnog] AOL rejecting hosts with no rDNS?

Brian Candler B.Candler at pobox.com
Mon Jun 28 09:00:48 EAT 2004


On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:06:15PM +0430, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> Speaking about spam and SPF. Here is the vision of some SPF
> zealots. If you do not have a /24, you do not exist.

Quite. In any case, the fundamental point seems to have been missed: people
seem to believe that fixing forged envelope senders will prevent spam.
That's just a total non-sequitur.

Do they *really* think that spammers cannot make their mails SPF-compliant?

Brian.


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