RE: [Asrg] Anti-spam laws do work, FYI. There's proof.

[Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com>]

On July 27, 2004 at 19:07 larry at larryseltzer.com (Larry Seltzer) wrote:
 >  
 > >>Spammers' primary methodology is using hijacked (infected) PCs as spam
 > zombies. All you'd know is the id of the hijacked PC, which you already
 > trivially knew.
 > 
 > Except that SPF would stop all of these zombied systems. None of the
 > mail from them would authenticate. In a world where SPF is followed,
 > none of the mail is accepted.

I don't understand.

Your system can send mail right now, right?

If it were zombied, it would still be able to send mail, only the mail
would now be spam (zillions of get rich quick ads, whatever.)

So how exactly does SPF et al help?


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