open letter to earthlink & comcast please publish SPF data
earthlink.net addresses are among the forgery addresses of choice for spammers, they are right up there with hotmail.com I think a very high percentage of the pinksheet pump and dump spams and the viagr*, enl*rgment, etc spams have fake earthlink.net addresses in the From headers So how about publishing some SPF data on your earthlink.net domain so those so inclined can use it toward reducing the ungodly amounts of backscatter you guys must get (and which causes you to tarpit other carriers and forwarders) Same goes for comcast. Even a softfail ~all will help out buckets. It's all but eliminated the backscatter we send to hotmail. If they can do it.... -mark -- Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com> Founder & President, easyDNS Technologies Inc. ph. +1-(416)-535-8672 ext 225 fx. +1-(866) 273-2892
Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com> writes:
So how about publishing some SPF data on your earthlink.net domain so ...
Same goes for comcast. ...
It's all but eliminated the backscatter we send to hotmail. If they can do it....
ditto Cox (guys... adelphia and roadrunner could do this, why can't you?) Then there's Yahoo (who keeps getting listed on spamcop, but we might just whitelist and override spamcop if there was some sane way to do so.... we maintain a list of domains here that we will allow to bypass greylisting and RBLs based upon SPF records). Yes, we know you're a bunch of domainkeys jocks, but how about supporting more instead of less? Apple "17.0.0.0/8 ~all" Computers, mind being a little more specific? I realize that spamware-infested machines at Apple are probably vanishingly rare, but still... ---Rob
Earthlink was the second major ISP to [publicly] do the right thing and dump their spf records. We, I am happy to say, were the first ISP to do that. For more, take a look at http://www.circleid.com/posts/spf_loses_mindshare/ You seriously think SPF is going to help you do that, Mark? -srs On 7/18/06, Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com> wrote:
So how about publishing some SPF data on your earthlink.net domain so those so inclined can use it toward reducing the ungodly amounts of backscatter you guys must get (and which causes you to tarpit other carriers and forwarders)
Same goes for comcast.
Even a softfail ~all will help out buckets.
-- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
For more, take a look at http://www.circleid.com/posts/spf_loses_mindshare/
Is Hotmail actually doing the Big Yellow Box Of Doom thing that they promised to do a year ago? Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ FITZROY: CYCLONIC BECOMING SOUTHWESTERLY 4 OR 5, BECOMING VARIABLE 3 IN EAST. RAIN OR THUNDERY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, WITH FOG PATCHES.
On 7/18/06, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
For more, take a look at http://www.circleid.com/posts/spf_loses_mindshare/
Is Hotmail actually doing the Big Yellow Box Of Doom thing that they promised to do a year ago?
To some extent, yes. Their UI does seem to be tagging mail that passes sender id at any rate -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
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