OT - has my email domain been hijacked?

Patrick J Kobly patrick at kobly.com
Wed Sep 14 22:32:22 UTC 2005


Hey, I believe that SPF has been overhyped just as much as the next 
guy.  At nminimum, what it does for this guy is he doesn't get bounces 
from the AOL mail servers directed at him.  It also may reduce the 
number of irate complaints he gets from people thinking he's SPAMming them.

PK

jdow wrote:

> From: "Patrick Kobly" <patrick at kobly.com>
>
>> Unless you are sending mail from
>>
>> client-201.230.112.161.speedy.net.pe
>>
>>
>> It's just normal SPAM with forged headers.  It would perhaps be wise 
>> to visit http://spf.pobox.com and look at the SPF option (to specify 
>> a policy indicating which servers are authorized to send mail on 
>> behalf of dataintellect.com)
>
>
> And that proves what, Patrick? Spam coming through here is more
> likely to have a good SPF than is ham. All it says is that the
> sender is positively identified. For spammers it's a throwaway.
>
> {^_^}
>




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