Re: How does the new anti spam SPF work regarding the senders email address ?

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:50:09 -0400

In article <#AbcYAHtEHA.160@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>,
 "Robert Moir" <bofh@mvps.org> wrote:

> Barry Margolin wrote:
>
> > If not spam and viruses, what problem do you think it was intended to
> > solve?
>
> Quite. Don't ask me, it's not like I invented it. If it was *intended* to
> fight spam and viruses then I can only assume people are even stupider than
> I always suspected.

I guess you overestimated people. The front page of spf.pobox.com says:
"SPF fights email address forgery and makes it easier to identify spams,
worms, and viruses" and "SPF is ushering in a new set of anti-spam
systems, where email is spam unless proven otherwise." 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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