Massive spam run this weekend

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Walter Vaughan (Tue, 27 May 2008 11:27:15 -0400):

> Kenneth Brody wrote:
>
>> There was a massive spam run this weekend with my e-mail address forged as
>> the "from" address.  As such, I ended up with nearly 2000 (!) bounces in
>> my inbox that made it through my spam filters.  (I haven't yet checked my
>> filters for how many more were caught.)
>>
> Does bestweb.net not have SPF records in place?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
>
> We didn't and I had same problem month ago.

1 - You're assuming they forged my BestWeb account.  :-)

2 - You're assuming that the recipients' systems use SPF.

And, BTW, there were over 29,800 items caught by my filters over the weekend.

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