[afnog] AOL rejecting hosts with no rDNS?

Mon Jun 28 09:59:15 EAT 2004

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 09:00:48AM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:06:15PM +0430, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > Speaking about spam and SPF. Here is the vision of some SPF
> > zealots. If you do not have a /24, you do not exist.
> 
> Quite. In any case, the fundamental point seems to have been missed: people
> seem to believe that fixing forged envelope senders will prevent spam.
> That's just a total non-sequitur.
> 
> Do they *really* think that spammers cannot make their mails SPF-compliant?

	No, SPF is here to protect brand names, as Paul Vixie put it.
	It will "garantee" that no one can spam in Yahoo's name, or Hotmail's.
	This opens a perverse loophole...