Massive spam run this weekend

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, May 27, 2008, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>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 that SPF does more good than harm -- a highly debatable point of view.
They are worse than useless if one does any e-mail forwarding.

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

Sounds about right.  There was a fairly massive botnet spam run within the
last month forging one of our support addresses (which are completely
unfiltered so we can get spam reports :-).  There was lots of blowback.

Bill
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