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Going Upstream to Fight Spam (Wired)

Going Upstream to Fight Spam (Wired)

Posted Jan 20, 2004 22:06 UTC (Tue) by crouchet (guest, #1084)
Parent article: Going Upstream to Fight Spam (Wired)

I don't know the exact mechanism but I would assume it could also be used to gather or at least confirm e-mail addresses for a SPAMers' known good list.

JC


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Going Upstream to Fight Spam (Wired)

Posted Jan 20, 2004 23:06 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

I don't know the exact mechanism but I would assume it could also be used to catch pink elephants on the far side of the Moon :-)

Please read the blurb: "Under SPF, e-mail users enter their valid domains and IP addresses into the SPF registry". E-mail addresses are not made available, only the IP addresses used to send e-mail.

Going Upstream to Fight Spam (Wired)

Posted Jan 21, 2004 8:36 UTC (Wed) by austinchuck (guest, #15358) [Link]

Using the SPF wizard ( http://spf.pobox.com/wizard.html ) gives you a pretty clear idea how the whole thing works...

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