SPUG: Re: New changes
Jonathan Gardner
jgardner at jonathangardner.net
Wed Jun 9 16:16:28 CDT 2004
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 02:01 pm, Jeff Almeida wrote:
> Also Sprach Aaron W. West:
> >Attachment saved to disk... CA's free-for-a-year antivirus says:
>
> Wasn't really me (I don't even run Windows). Now I'm being
> spoofed by cable modems in Romania? Love those headers....
>
Since spam comprises something like 80% of all email, and since roughly 80%
of all spam comes from compromised Windows machines, 64% of all email is
spam coming from compromised Windows machines.
> One of these days we'll actually SPF or one of its cousins implemented as
> a standard and all of this sort of nonsense will stop.
>
SPF is well on its way to being implemented full-scale. We have 19,000
publishers as of right now. Growth appears to be logarithmic. There has
been a huge increase of the rate as of a week or so ago. I believe SPF has
finally reached critical mass. The explosion of SPF adoption is happening
right now.
http://spftools.infinitepenguins.net/register.php
AOL has already said that if you want to be on their whitelist, you have to
publish by end of summer. I think AOL has a significant voice in this
matter as a great percentage of all email flows to or from their accounts.
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3365651
The SPF community is debating whether or not to join with AOL and encourage
SPF adopters to do the same.
See http://spf.pobox.com/ for more details.
Have you published your SPF records yet? If not, why not?
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Jonathan Gardner
jgardner at jonathangardner.net
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