Re: [Asrg] Re: SPF abused by spammers

[Jim Witte <jswitte at bloomington.in.us>]

> > > ..but one can easily see why the press grabbed what it did and ran
> > > with it.
> >
> > Absolutely. And the cynical observer might consider that
> > CipherTrust's PR
> > department will consider this a great success.
>
> Getting press attention is easy. The question is whether the attention
> is beneficial in the long term or not.

  Why not try to get the press to grab something the SPF *can* do - 
like perhaps stop the flood of V1 at GR@ and C10L1S ads that keep filling 
my inbox, coming from God-knows where.  Or the porn, or the occassional 
spam I get that's in either Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (I read none, 
but it's in *something* I can't read).

  Are there stats on how effective SPF is at dealing with this 
cross-border spam, that seems to be coming from zombies (I assume 
zombies) over in China.  Although I haven't noticed that kind of spam 
in the past year or so - at least not spams in languages I can't read.

  CipherTrust pointed out, and the press ran with, what SPF cannot do: 
stop spam sent by spammers who follow the rules.  But what it *can* do 
is to stop (or try to stop) spam  sent by spammers who do not follow 
the rules.  How many of those there are, I don't know, but I'd venture 
that most of the drug ads and such are from non-rule-following 
spammers.

Jim


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